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Total Members Voted: 257

[Mono124]

sigh

[cib]

Server back up, please repeat what you did last time.

[beorn080]

I had added 20 O2 and 20 Plasma cans to the engine to speed up the heating process, that may have caused it.

[Mono124]

Wtf crash? We just started.... did we crash?

[cib]

Crash? No, there has been no crash. Maybe my connection broke?

[Volatar]

I am going to go to bed, good luck on the bugtesting guys 

[Mono124]

I think so... cause I can't join. I am going to bed as well, so peace.

[cib]

Just spawning loads of cannisters in the engine and firing it up will not result in a crash.

[cib]

I have rewritten a lot of the atmosphere code with a new algorithm in mind and it seems to be working out very well. The code is simplified, more realistic and I think also a bit faster. I don't know if it fixed the crasher though.

[Volatar]

Distribute the code. Lets play some games with it, see if things are better 

[Jakkarra]

Osbert Shaffer is coming back on board, i'm currently downloading the game, and i will play as soon as the server is up.

[qwertyuiopas]

Found the code I used to slow down electrical propagation to eliminate it as a potential crash source. It may or may not make a diffrence, but I think it saved me from a total crash once, while testing with a few other people. Then periodic and common lag-waves hit. But it prevented an engine contents release from immediately stopping the game.



var/powernet_nextlink_counter = 0
var/powernet_nextlink_processing = 0
/proc/powernet_nextlink(var/obj/O, var/num)
   while(powernet_nextlink_processing)
      sleep(1)
   var/list/P
   powernet_nextlink_counter = 0
   //world.log << "start:

• at [O.x].[O.y]"

   while(1)//powernet_nextlink_counter < 100000)//was while(1), but *might* be better to do it this way. 100 thousand iterations should be enough, right?
      powernet_nextlink_counter++
      if(powernet_nextlink_counter > 40)
         powernet_nextlink_processing = 1
         sleep(1)//During this sleep(), another nextlink() *could* begin processing, so stop it early.
         powernet_nextlink_processing = 0
         powernet_nextlink_counter = 0

[Apple Master]

Server?

[Volatar]

If I am reading correctly, is the server crashing because it is suddenly grabbing too many system resources and dying? Because our systems have PLENTY of resources to spare for the server to go crazy. I mean, over 6 GIGAhertz of processing power, 2 GIGAbytes of RAM. That should be PLENTY for ANY game. (it is)

It sounds to me like the game is killing IT SELF to stop it from taking too many system resources. It sounds to me like if we can stop it from doing this, we may solve our problem.

Also, I probably am WAY wrong 

[Googolplexed]

If the server is going into an infinite loop, or is doing some other crap, then it doesn't matter how fast your computer is, it will crash(Or hang).
If its an infinite loop, then its infinite times too slow
It might be looping and grabbing too much ram. Sometimes when an app enters an infinite loop, it just keeps on requesting ram until there's none left.

I haven't touched the code though, I'm just pointing out that if something is wrong, A good computer won't fix it.

BTW: Unless you've heavily overclocked that computer, it isn't 6ghz, cores don't work together as a single processor.
BYOND isn't multi-threaded so it only uses 1 core at most.