Has anyone else been running their Synchronet BBS in Win10?
I had been running my BBS in a Windows XP VM for quite a while, but recently I've been experimenting with a Windows 10 (32-bit) VM for my BBS. I have it running in Windows 10 now, and I've noticed it seems somewhat slower than it was with XP (for instance, a message newscan seems to take more time). The Win10 OS overall seems somewhat slower (sometimes a program or a Control Panel applet takes a little more time to appear). I've disabled some background apps and services that I don't need and made some tweaks (such as disabling visual effects in the UI, etc.), which helped a bit, but it still seems somewhat slower than XP was. The hardware requirements for Win10 32-bit include 1GB of RAM, but I've given the VM 3GB of RAM, which I'd hope should be plenty for the OS and running Synchronet.
Has anyone else been running their Synchronet BBS in Win10?
Has anyone else been running their Synchronet BBS in Win10?
I run both bbs's and my gameserver all on windows 10 32 bit, and it's very fast. It's stand alone, not a vm. It may be the vm causing your slow down.
as of 12/18/17 running win. 10 pro. 64 bit (16 gb). with 3 vm. (win. 7 home 32 bit. - bbs 4 gb, debian 9.? 64 bit. with 2096 mb - about to be another bbs (#2) building it up, windows server 2003 32 bit, 512 mb. a server, not public and not ready, but online) and having no problems
Perhaps, though these days I wouldn't think the VM would slow it down too much. The VM has a virtual Intel CPU, and the host machine is Intel - My understanding is that it doesn't actually need to emulate the processor, it can actually use the host processor more directly.
Re: Re: Running under Windows 10 slowness
By: Lord Time to Nightfox on Fri Dec 22 2017 07:40 am
as of 12/18/17 running win. 10 pro. 64 bit (16 gb). with 3 vm. (win. 7 home 32 bit. - bbs 4 gb, debian 9.? 64 bit. with 2096 mb - about to be another bbs (#2) building it up, windows server 2003 32 bit, 512 mb. a server, not public and not ready, but online) and having no problems
But is your BBS running in Windows 10 or one of those VMs?
Re: Running under Windows 10 slowness
By: DesotoFireflite to Nightfox on Fri Dec 22 2017 06:29 am
I run both bbs's and my gameserver all on windows 10 32 bit, and it's very fast. It's stand alone, not a vm. It may be the vm causing your slow down.
Perhaps, though these days I wouldn't think the VM would slow it down too much. The VM has a virtual Intel CPU, and the host machine is Intel - My understanding is that it doesn't actually need to emulate the processor, it can actually use the host processor more directly.
More likely, slowdowns are caused by running emulated hardware drivers instead of the VM-Friendly ones. VMWare, for example, comes with VMWare tools that installs optimized drivers and enables things like drag and drop, resizable guest windows, etc. Apparently, there's a bit of a speed hit when using a bare metal driver in a VM compared to the VM-specific drivers.
I run both bbs's and my gameserver all on windows 10 32 bit, and
it's very fast. It's stand alone, not a vm. It may be the vm causing
your slow down.
Perhaps, though these days I wouldn't think the VM would slow it down too much. The VM has a virtual Intel CPU, and the host machine is Intel - My understanding is that it doesn't actually need to emulate the processor, it can actually use the host processor more directly.
I run both bbs's and my gameserver all on windows 10 32 bit, and
it's very fast. It's stand alone, not a vm. It may be the vm causing
your slow down.
Perhaps, though these days I wouldn't think the VM would slow it down too much. The VM has a virtual Intel CPU, and the host machine is Intel - My understanding is that it doesn't actually need to emulate the processor, it can actually use the host processor more directly.
I don't do the VM route, but a friend of mine in California that runs a bbs does, and he had problems with win 10 vm inside a windows 10 machine, and decided to swithch back to a win 7 vm. Win 10 is so bloated with extras, it may be causing issues. I've turned off most of the extra stuff in mine.
In addition to my last note, I do run a vm on my macbook, and it's a windows 10 vm. The vm is by paraells, but it is very slow compared to the the win 7 vm I had as a vm. I think my problem however is due to that I've reached the limits of the older processor. I'm going back to win 7 on my macbook.
In addition to my last note, I do run a vm on my macbook, and it's a windows 10 vm. The vm is by paraells, but it is very slow compared to the the win 7 vm I had as a vm. I think my problem however is due to that I've reached the limits of the older processor. I'm going back to win 7 on my macbook.
I suppose I might have to try that if my Win10 VM ends up being too slow. I wanted to go with a newer version of Windows though, since I think Windows 7 has reached the end of its support life from Microsoft.
I didn't think of Windows 10 as being very bloated.. Windows 10 is a continuation of Windows 8.x, and (I thought) was aimed at performing well on either a PC or tablet. I thought Microsoft had leaned Windows down a bit starting with 8.x.
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