• src/sbbs3/nopen.c

    From Rob Swindell to Git commit to sbbs/master on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 02:22:17
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/sbbs/sbbs/-/commit/914790f5931e27c30f94e204
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/nopen.c
    Log Message:
    Improve file copy (fcopy()) performance by more than an order of magnitude. Using a 256KB read buffer for copying files (rather than one byte at a time). Apparently calling fread() is not the same as a bunch of calls to fgetc()
    after all. Or maybe it was the many calls to fputc() being replaced with fwrite(). Or maybe it was both. Anyway, decreased the time to copy a 1GB
    file from and to a Samba share over a Gb Ethernet network from 13 minutes
    to less than a minute. This matters when sbbs is backing up your data/mail
    base and the files are big. The mail base is locked while being backed up
    and the longer it takes to back up, the longer the mail base is locked and
    no mail can be received, read or sent during that time.
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Rob Swindell on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 12:49:55
    Hi Rob,

    On 2020-09-09 02:22:17, you wrote to Git commit to sbbs/master:

    https://gitlab.synchro.net/sbbs/sbbs/-/commit/914790f5931e27c30f94e204 Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/nopen.c
    Log Message:
    Improve file copy (fcopy()) performance by more than an order of magnitude.Using a 256KB read buffer for copying files (rather than one byte
    at a time).Apparently calling fread() is not the same as a bunch of calls to fgetc()after all. Or maybe it was the many calls to fputc() being replaced withfwrite(). Or maybe it was both. Anyway, decreased the time to copy a 1GBfile from and to a Samba share over a Gb Ethernet network from 13
    minutesto less than a minute. This matters when sbbs is backing up your data/mailbase and the files are big. The mail base is locked while being backed upand the longer it takes to back up, the longer the mail base is locked andno mail can be received, read or sent during that time.

    Maybe this can even be improved upon:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.h https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.c


    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)
  • From Digital Man to Wilfred van Velzen on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 09:09:30
    Re: Re: src/sbbs3/nopen.c
    By: Wilfred van Velzen to Rob Swindell on Wed Sep 09 2020 12:49 pm

    Hi Rob,

    On 2020-09-09 02:22:17, you wrote to Git commit to sbbs/master:

    https://gitlab.synchro.net/sbbs/sbbs/-/commit/914790f5931e27c30f94e204 Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/nopen.c
    Log Message:
    Improve file copy (fcopy()) performance by more than an order of magnitude.Using a 256KB read buffer for copying files (rather than one byte
    at a time).Apparently calling fread() is not the same as a bunch of calls to fgetc()after all. Or maybe it was the many calls to fputc() being replaced withfwrite(). Or maybe it was both. Anyway, decreased the time to copy a 1GBfile from and to a Samba share over a Gb Ethernet network from 13
    minutesto less than a minute. This matters when sbbs is backing up your data/mailbase and the files are big. The mail base is locked while being backed upand the longer it takes to back up, the longer the mail base is locked andno mail can be received, read or sent during that time.

    Maybe this can even be improved upon:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.h https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.c

    Um... thanks? I was getting 400+Mbps, so I'm pretty sastified with that, and it's portable code. But I may experiment with your Linux-specific code at some point.

    digital man

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Digital Man on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 19:17:00
    Hi Digital,

    On 2020-09-09 09:09:30, you wrote to me:

    Maybe this can even be improved upon:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.h
    https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.c

    Um... thanks? I was getting 400+Mbps, so I'm pretty sastified with that, and it's portable code. But I may experiment with your Linux-specific code at some point.

    And on windows just use the CopyFile() OS function...

    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)
  • From Digital Man to Wilfred van Velzen on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 13:23:52
    Re: Re: src/sbbs3/nopen.c
    By: Wilfred van Velzen to Digital Man on Wed Sep 09 2020 07:17 pm

    Hi Digital,

    On 2020-09-09 09:09:30, you wrote to me:

    Maybe this can even be improved upon:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.h
    https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.c

    Um... thanks? I was getting 400+Mbps, so I'm pretty sastified with that, and it's portable code. But I may experiment with your Linux-specific code at some point.

    And on windows just use the CopyFile() OS function...

    Now *that* was a good tip! Thanks!

    digital man

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Digital Man on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 22:59:02
    Hi Digital,

    On 2020-09-09 13:23:52, you wrote to me:

    Maybe this can even be improved upon:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.h
    https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.c

    Um... thanks? I was getting 400+Mbps, so I'm pretty sastified with
    that, and it's portable code. But I may experiment with your
    Linux-specific code at some point.

    And on windows just use the CopyFile() OS function...

    Now *that* was a good tip! Thanks!

    It's in my source code, but you have to notice it. ;-)

    I'm interested if you did the speed messurement again, and if you could detect a difference? ;)

    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)
  • From Digital Man to Wilfred van Velzen on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 17:48:23
    Re: Re: src/sbbs3/nopen.c
    By: Wilfred van Velzen to Digital Man on Wed Sep 09 2020 10:59 pm

    Hi Digital,

    On 2020-09-09 13:23:52, you wrote to me:

    Maybe this can even be improved upon:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.h
    https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/copyFile.c

    Um... thanks? I was getting 400+Mbps, so I'm pretty sastified with
    that, and it's portable code. But I may experiment with your
    Linux-specific code at some point.

    And on windows just use the CopyFile() OS function...

    Now *that* was a good tip! Thanks!

    It's in my source code, but you have to notice it. ;-)

    I'm interested if you did the speed messurement again, and if you could detect a difference? ;)

    I did and CopyFile() was both faster (reduced from 37 to 5 seconds) and had lower CPU utilization. Nice!

    digital man

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Digital Man on Thursday, September 10, 2020 11:07:02
    Hi Digital,

    On 2020-09-09 17:48:23, you wrote to me:

    I'm interested if you did the speed messurement again, and if you could
    detect a difference? ;)

    I did and CopyFile() was both faster (reduced from 37 to 5 seconds) and had
    lower CPU utilization. Nice!

    That's much bigger improvement, then I would have expected! Nice indeed!

    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)
  • From Digital Man to Wilfred van Velzen on Thursday, September 10, 2020 11:35:39
    Re: Re: src/sbbs3/nopen.c
    By: Wilfred van Velzen to Digital Man on Thu Sep 10 2020 11:07 am

    Hi Digital,

    On 2020-09-09 17:48:23, you wrote to me:

    I'm interested if you did the speed messurement again, and if you could
    detect a difference? ;)

    I did and CopyFile() was both faster (reduced from 37 to 5 seconds) and had
    lower CPU utilization. Nice!

    That's much bigger improvement, then I would have expected! Nice indeed!

    Yeah, me too. I didn't know that Win32 function existed, so nice tip. Thanks again,

    digital man

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  • From Rob Swindell to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Thursday, April 14, 2022 17:30:07
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/1080ab0d8a0d5dca15dcbaa2
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/nopen.c
    Log Message:
    Fix new function: fopenlog()

    ftello() returns 0 after fnopen(..., O_APPEND). Use filelength() instead.