Making dircproxy Fast

Eric Hodel | Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:24:52 GMT

Posted in Hacking

I use dircproxy to maintain my IRC connection to #ruby-lang so I can flip through the scrollback when I rejoin. Unfortunately tons of people come and go from #ruby-lang during the course of a day. All these quits and joins get logged and all of them get sent when I reconnect by default, which can take ten to twenty seconds.

Flipping through the dircproxy man page I found the following configuration settings will stop logging the quits and joins and nearly eliminate reconnect time:

log_events -join,-part,-quit,-nick

So my dircproxy configuration for Freenode looks like this:

server_throttle 10
disconnect_existing_user yes
listen_port ...
log_events -join,-part,-quit,-nick

connection {
  password "..." 
  server "irc.freenode.net" 
  join "#ruby-lang, #seattle.rb, #ruby2c" 
}

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