Thelounge: Scroll Back Memory Consumption

[vectr0n]

Over the last day or two I have noticed TheLounge server consuming a large amount of memory. After inquiring on IRC it was as I suspected the scroll back is loaded into memory. I currently have 5 networks connected with probably close to a 100 fairly busy channels in total, TheLounge server is now eating more memory then my heavily used MariaDB server. Would be nice to have an option in the server config to set the amount of scroll back to keep in memory before say dumping to disk to be retrieved using "Show More".

[lindskogen]

Generally, the current structure of keeping all information in memory is pretty bad. One solution for this is to implement a sqlite backend and persist everything there, which would also have the added benefit of keeping data between restarts of the lounge server

[dgw]

:+1: for gaining memory efficiency and persistence in one go.

[Dr-Horv]

@lindskogen You've done some work on this right? How far along are you?

[xPaw]

You can use the maxHistory option to help with this.