Forums Feature Suggestions Increase Maximum Windows Buffer

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The current maximum value is " 30,000 " ( which I use )

Could it be possible to increase this to something like " 100,000 " or higher, as some people like to run mIRC for weeks at a time.


This is a 7.06 Beta image.

I imagine it's possible, but I seem to recall people posting messages that are almost the opposite of this, due to the fact that their system(s) were lagging with a high line limit there and a large number of windows open.

Ex: 5 networks, 20 channels/network, 30,000 lines/channel = 3 million lines. If a line contains 80 characters, then we're now looking at 240 million characters (roughly .25G) that would be stored in RAM so that you can scroll back through them.

At 100,000 lines, you'd be looking at 800 million characters (roughly .8G)

Additionally, if you have logging enabled, then that information is stored in the appropriate log.

While I have no objections to having a maximum level increased, it seems to me that you may be one of few people that would take advantage of this.

I was on a Pentium 3 @ 1Ghz, with 512MB RAM on Windows XP, and I would use the " 30,000 " limit on 25 channels across 7 networks and keep mIRC opened for a week or two. I know all about the system lag ( using 6.35 - 7.04 beta on the Pentium 3). But now, I am on a more powerful machine ( two physical xeon single cores @ 2Ghz, 1GB RAM, Windows XP ) ( using 7.06 beta ). I only use this machine for mIRC, nothing else.




Yeah, I know that, but I like scrolling through the buffer sometimes. I do not like opening the log while in the active channels, as i get a little message like this whenever something happens in the channel.

I am using Notepad++ in this image




I agree with you 100%. All of the networks I am on, only a few of the people keep their mIRC opened for weeks at a time.

I don't really see a reason for 100,000 lines per channel/query. I leave mIRC running 24/7 and only reboot it when doing updates that require it. My buffer is set to 1000 because that's plenty. If I need more, I load the log file.

If you have that error coming up in Notepad++, then there is probably an option to NOT monitor file changes. Otherwise, save yourself the trouble and load the log in mIRC or in another program that doesn't monitor file changes. And, in mIRC, you get an exact view (colors and all) of what it looks like in mIRC.

Depending on how you log, you can use something like this:

//window @log | loadbuf -p @log $mklogfn($active)

That will load the currently used log file for the active window. If you are saving logs by day, then you'll only see the current day, so you'd want to change it some to load multiple days if that was needed. If you save everything to one log file without splitting it, then you'll get the entire thing. You can also adjust it to only load a specific number of lines if that was necessary.

In any case, I doubt increasing the limit is difficult and it won't affect anyone, so I don't see a problem doing that. But it would greatly increase lag for anyone in many large channels with constant conversation/text even on the fastest computers and what you showed is still only a low end computer compared to what's available today. And this increases even more for anyone logging all those channels. If lag doesn't matter to you, then that's up to you.