• src/sbbs3/getnode.cpp

    From Rob Swindell (on Windows 11)@1:103/705 to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Thu Aug 22 21:26:25 2024
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/e93b6dfa682e792f39c548dd
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/getnode.cpp
    Log Message:
    Don't call utime() on the node.dab file for every read

    ... this was the cause of some observed unnecessarily high disk/file server (Samba) utilization, as we call getnodedat() a lot. utime() opens and closes the file, which was already open - and we're not modifying the file, so updating the 'modification time' here is wrong anyway.

    Disabling this 21-year old bit of logic resulted in a pretty dramatic
    reduction in Samba (smbd) CPU utilization on Vertrauen.

    If a BBS actually needes this hack (e.g. for NFS compatibility, as Deuce
    eluded in the comment), they'd be better off just setting the "Keep Node File Open" node setting (in SCFG->Nodes) to "No".
    --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux
    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)