FuBar_AddonSpamFu - WoW AddOns

AddonSpamFu is an Addon for monitoring the addoncommunication channels for guild, raid, group, bg &whisper.

Poorly written Addons often send too much unneeded messages over the wire.

AddonSpamFU helps you to find , which addons produce the most traffic and what kind of information they send.

When an Addon doesn't use its original name as a prefix, like many Ace-Comm-2.0 Addons do, ASFU trys to print the addonname instead of a cryptic prefix.
This only works if the Prefix<-> Addonname relationship is in the Database already.
These Addons are marked with a suffix (_KNOWN) / colored in greeen

If you know the addon that is currently named UNKNOWN_(Prefix) (yellow color) or find an Addon that isn't in the List already (colored in red) , drop me a note or feel free to add it to the svn-repo yourself.

Forum: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=7721

Be carefully when you try to interpret the data asfu gives you, some addons like LibHealcomm need to send a lot of messages, but that wont necessarily cause disconnects /fps drops & wont kill your cat.
Too much traffic isnt needed, but by default, the wowserver tends to send a lot more than any addon ever will ;)

If you want to help::
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Ive created a small and simple Addon that discovers new Prefixes
http://www.wowace.com/addons/prefix-hunter/files/

"Prefix Hunter is standalone addon designed to supply AddonSpamFU with new prefixes&addonnames.
It watches Addon.Comm-Channels and compares received/send data with an internal list, if the prefix isnt found, it prints: sender, channel, prefix & message to chat."

If you notice a new Prefix and know which Addon it is, please tell me.

WARNING: this Addon is for Development only and might spam your chattab ;)

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9 comments

- #9
Cyprias Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:59:55
We're both hooking SendAddonMessage. SAM using a raw hook to block the call, ASFU using a secure hook. A secure hook will always be called with the original arguments regardless of what other addons have done with their hooks. So even if SAM blocks the call from being sent out, ASFU gets the call and counts it as being sent out.

If ASFU were to use AceHook2.1 or 3.0 to raw/safe hook the function, then SAM should be able to intercept and block the call before ASFU gets it.
- #8
yoshimo Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:50:03
the traffic from addons is minimal compared to the rest the server sends you, but its always good to reduce it.
- #7
DanoPDX Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:10:43
GearGauge spams 4x as much info imo. However although I tried this mod out, I think for me, the only real lag I get is server lag, not from addons. I get most of my lag from stupid things like 25,000 instances of HH going on.

Although what I think the authors of Carbonite and GearGague should do is just force an auto disable when in a Raid. Then if it's a 5 man group fine, but if you are in a guild raid then all that, be it minimal imo, spam would not be there.

Last edited on 26 Oct 2009 by DanoPDX
- #6
yoshimo Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:39:26
ASFU prints all messages from the addonmessagechannels to your favourite chattab. The channel settings refer to the statistics in the asfu-tooltip and the highlighting of messages in the chattab. Messages from the configured Channels are shown in the statistics /highlighted in chat

Also,if messages from your guildmates show in the statistics although you disabled GUILD, it might be an addon which exchanges versioninformation per WHISPER.

Last edited on 10 Sep 2009 by yoshimo
- #5
Adirelle Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:54:47
I have the feeling this does not honor the channel settings. Even with "GUILD" disabled it reports messages from guildies when I'm not even in a group, battleground or whatever.
- #4
yoshimo Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:53:51
If i ignored all these CarboniteSpammers it would be rather quiet in my guild &server ;)

If you know an addon that is currently marked UNKNOWN_(Prefix) or find an Addon that isn't in the List already, drop me a note or feel free to add it to the svn-repo yourself
- #3
Vedj Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:50:30
Some people use very old addons, there addon generate trash traffic... ignore this people and you get extra FPS in raid
- #2
yoshimo Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:45:29
Why should you ignore people depending on which addons they use? ;) You should rather ignore them based on their social behaviour . But its always nice to find out which addons generate the most traffic. But its nice that you find it useful
- #1
Vedj Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:34:18
Great plugin... for tracking who need to be ignored