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INI file #183871 23/08/07 08:41 AM
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 31 P piker OP Ameglian cow
OP piker Ameglian cow P Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 31	I have a file called piker.ini which contains several settings for my script. My question is, is the .ini file loaded when mirc starts and remains whole in the memory or is it called when needed and that's it?

Re: INI file piker #183874 23/08/07 09:40 AM
Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 464 Amsterdam, NL O OrionsBelt Fjord artisan
OrionsBelt Fjord artisan O Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 464 Amsterdam, NL	An ini file is not stored in memory. Only when you tell mIRC to read ($readini) from the file, you're getting information returned. After that it is up to you what you do with that information. If you save the information to a variable, it will obviously be in memory. So, nothing is being loaded, unless you tell mIRC to.

Re: INI file OrionsBelt #183875 23/08/07 09:55 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 503 Melbourne, Australia B Bekar Fjord artisan
Bekar Fjord artisan B Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 503 Melbourne, Australia	Once the information is read, it is cached for a period of time, based on Windows inbuilt INI routines.

Re: INI file OrionsBelt #183876 23/08/07 10:12 AM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,559 Germany H Horstl Hoopy frood
Horstl Hoopy frood H Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,559 Germany	Well, mIRC states to cache ini files. There is also that /flushini command: Quote: /flushini <filename> Flushes the specified INI file to the hard disk. INI files are cached in memory, so you may want to do this to make sure that your INI is updated properly. I wondered how long and how much of ini data will be "cached in memory". Of course mIRC will not "load" or "cache" your ini files on its own, as OrionsBelt pointed out. The inidata is storad as "physical" file. Somewhere I read there is one, but I'm not able to reproduce a measurable time offset between first read attempt of a (large custom) inifile and further read attempts with a script. Maybe someone can clarify this? Thanks. EDIT: ok, after some time and/or using a "ram defrag" tool, there is a measurable difference: Code: //var %start = $ticks \| echo -a read: $ini($mircini,20) \| echo -a $calc($ticks - %start) ticks or Code: //var %start = $ticks \| echo -a read: $readini(servers.ini,$ini(servers.ini,2),n0) \| echo -a $calc($ticks - %start) ticks first attempt: 15, 30 or even 120 ticks second attempt: 0 ticks Last edited by Horstl; 23/08/07 10:55 AM.

Re: INI file Horstl #183965 24/08/07 01:13 AM
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 31 P piker OP Ameglian cow
OP piker Ameglian cow P Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 31	Thanks for your reply that answered exactly what I was after.

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