UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Chit Chat when would ubb version 6.1 be released??

waiting eagerly for tis version to come out..
:rolleyes:

anyone has any rough idea when it would be released??

gah. A few weeks..

To steal a line form Joe Seigler and the Duke Nukem folks "When it's done".

We have a lot done but a lot of good things left to do. We're not putting a date on 6.1 because we want it to be done and done well when you folks get it.

Oh that's good! putting dates usually makes you under pressure. However, I would like to have a more organaized code in UBB6.1. I mean it's all coded at one column .. why is that? that makes the code harder to read.

Perltidy is your friend.

We have an internal date for when we want 6.1.0 to be ready for release, and we are perfectly on schedule... so yes, there IS pressure.

Boy do i hate sausage.

As in Oktoberfest?

Thanks a lot Charles, I'm downloading it now

Where can I find perltidy?

~MM~ How can you not like sausage pizza?

Nav -
I love sausage pizza, not by itself though.

www.cpan.org

EDIT: Damn it, i cant think.
See CC's post below.

[ June 10, 2001 12:36 AM: Message edited by: MasterMind ]

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http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/

Thanks!

Hopefully there will be better features on 6.1..But just be patient.

Can we have an objective measurement of resource usage in 6.1 compared to 5.47? Or can we have an assurance that all v5 sites will find V6 acceptable?

Without this information or assurance, are we meant to take a risk with out sites on shared servers being pulled for excess resource usage?

The way I would test it is to write a driver script in say Perl, which does a typical mix of http requests per minute (in v5 about 55% cgi and 45% html hits), run this script against another server running UBB on NT. Windows NT has a very nice builtin performance monitor which will measure CPU and RAM loading.

Either compare the CPU/RAM usage against a fixed number of http hits per minute or alternatively run it up to saturation and measure the throughput. Then can you tell us what the difference is in resource usage between V5 and V6. Thanks.

I think that UBB6.1 should use static HTML files instead of caching files, this will increase the used space however, it will speed up the board and It'll be more faster than UBB5.

zpat, read this thread . UBB has no CPU use problems. UBB has terrible I/O problems.

The I/O problems are on schedule to be addressed partially in 6.1.0.

sounds good.

Pilot --
You complain about something about 1/8 of the members complain about..i notice no problems.
But then again, 700 megs of ram with ramdisks?

It's a valid question to most UBB™ owners who are on shared hosts. Pilot, if you can write the scripts to test like you said, I'd be happy to spit out some performance figures for 5.47e, 6.04f and (when ready for release) 6.1, it should be interesting for everyone, I have a win2k machine we can test on.

CC is working on the IO issues for 6.1 in upcoming beta's, hopefully some strides will be made there to correct them. Right now, feature-wise and code-wise, it is looking real good...:)

yeah... and of course my members area access expires in a few days. Just my luck.

When you say UBB has no CPU issues - are they bearing in mind the fact that the CGI is called about twice as often without the static HTML? It would need be twice as efficient as V5 to have no increase in CPU.

Secondly - what about CGI memory - my shared host automatically chops processes that use over 8 MB of RAM. My shared server only has 128 MB. But UBB 5 works fine. I just have this feeling UBB 6 will not.

What version of perl is your host running Pilot? There are some problems with the most recent version that activestate is working on. 128 mb on a shared server? With ram at $59 for 256mb that's really weak... they owe their clients better than that...

The I/O CC was talking about is the main problem with current ubb versions, they are working on that now...

Oh yeah, did you find/write some scripts for monitoring the performance issues on win2k? I can check it for you, no problem, just haven't seen what you are talking about.

I just bought some of that cheap RAM three days ago. Really helps out my local system's performance. (256 megs of PC133)

Yeah, I'll be interested in those Benchmark scripts too (see my UBB Clock Cycles hack )

qasic

[ June 29, 2001 10:34 AM: Message edited by: qasic ]