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From: Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~} <ctkwan@cs.hku.hk>
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Subject: My client runs IRC bots
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Hi,

	I found that a client of mine is running EggDrop in
one our Linux boxes. That fellow runs three bots simultaneously.
My question is: Is there anything wrong with letting people
run IRC bots? Would there be any significant impact to the
server's performance? I used renice to lower the priorities
of the bots already. I noticed that the bots open up a large
number of sockets. Is it possible that these processes would
consume a large ammount of kernel resources?

Thanks

-Doug