Re: {bb} available entries in bb-hosts

[Sean MacGuire <sean@MacLawran.CA>]

Erik Walum wrote:
> 
> with a lenghtier bb-hosts file, should it take a lot longer 
> for bb.html to rebuild?

Yes, but.

A couple of changes are coming with version 1.2.  My person
favourite is that runbb.sh behaves in a Truly Useful(TM)
fashion now; i.e.

	./runbb.sh [start|restart|stop]

No more nohup, or backgrounding.  That's 'cause a new little
program called bbrun does the looping and backgrounding for
each BB element seperately, i.e. BBLOCAL, BBNET, BBDISPLAY
and now, EXTERNAL PLUG INs.  All separate, all the time.

Before, if NFS caused df to hang on the BBDISPLAY machine, the
display wouldn't get updated, 'cause all of BB was doing in
serial.  Now it's all asychronous and runs in parallel.

So, although a longer bb-hosts file will take longer to build
the bb-displays, the displays themselves will actually happen
more frequently than before (no depending on bb-network.sh, 
bb-local.sh, etc), and the created pages tend (from inital
review) to be much smaller, and thus load much faster.
-- 
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