Server crashes - solved

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Wed Feb 21, 2001 4:14 pm

We had a bugged character the last days, that caused all the crashes. I fixed his player file, and it should happen no more.

devNULL · Post by **devNULL** » Wed Feb 21, 2001 5:58 pm

Should a malformed playerdata crash the server?? What about parsing the data and kicking it, if it's not correct? (For the future?)

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Feb 22, 2001 6:06 pm

Perhaps using an older char update ? (hehe not too old)

martin · Post by **martin** » Sun Feb 25, 2001 7:21 am

i'm not sure about what caused the crashes in detail, BUT here's a tip how to avoid buggy chars in general (which is used in this T-game too

):
first save all chardata to a file, which is *not* the real player-file. after finishing the last entry to this file, rename it to the real player-file.

maybe you do that anyway, but if not: it helps avoiding much trouble

martin

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Sun Feb 25, 2001 1:29 pm

this would only help to avoid errors while writing the file, right?
The file was written completely, so this would have been no solution, but might help in other situations.

martin · Post by **martin** » Sun Feb 25, 2001 10:36 pm

describing the method itself explains selfcontaining its application and where it works

however, i did not know when and where the bug occured, it was just a general statement/tip.

martin

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Thu Mar 01, 2001 1:53 pm

Many times i have been kicked out
and once it set back all my item #'s and some of my skills.
Was that a server crash or was that just my game?

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Thu Mar 01, 2001 2:10 pm

The last server down was on the 23rd february. If you have been kicked out after that, it was only your client. You loose skills and Items only when the server crashes.

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Thu Mar 01, 2001 9:09 pm

Ok, I understand now.
What about the lag? It constantly lags every 3 hours or so.
Could you fix that in the next ver.? Or at least cut down on so much lagging?

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Thu Mar 01, 2001 10:47 pm

could you check the time when it lags? I am not online so often, so I don't realize it. If there is a longer lag, please note the time (and perhaps duration) as exact as you can. Perhaps it is the script that generates the statistics or the online list.