Why does the server keep freezing?

Boremier · Post by **Boremier** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:52 pm

I was just wondering why the server keeps freezing.

Boremier

Berengar · Post by **Berengar** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:57 pm

It seems to be down, I was just fighting with a rot

jippi, lost another week of training, well thats a different story...

Please don t commend my posting, I m just a little bit angry

By the way, was this a server crash, or are they updating?

Caranthir the great · Post by **Caranthir the great** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:59 pm

Bugfixing, perhaps.

Sir Gannon · Post by **Sir Gannon** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 2:16 am

As far as i understand. SO DONT QUOTE ME!

Its when certain people (could be anyone) Log in or out and it SOMEHOW causes the client to freeze. Anyone who DOES know please correct me.

Shi'voc · Post by **Shi'voc** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 2:41 am

a client freeze would never affect the server...
btw. we already have a solution for the freezes, though no time yet to implement it...
and complaining about the freezes won't give us more time... it rather takes some of our time which we need to read that nonsense...

Hermie · Post by **Hermie** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:45 am

Oh, but when you do turn off the server to do bug fixes a message in the text could come up so people dont loose interactions since their last log off? I know this message has been done before but does it always appear? Thanks

Galim2 · Post by **Galim2** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:36 pm

thank you for the messages

. this is great, if you haven't send the message today, i would have lost a many things

. thank you

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:02 pm

When we bring the server down for bug fixes, etc... there is always an announcement made in game that the game is coming down for an update.

So, if the game goes down, and you didn't get the message, that's because it locked up. Crashes have become extremely rare these days.

We have been trying to find the specific cause of these lockups for months now. We know WHERE it's locking up, but just not why.

So we've decided to forget trying to figure out WHY it's locking up and just do some kludges so that if that section of code does lock up the game server will continue to run.

The reason we haven't done this before is because the kludge we have to do is some of the hardest code to get right without it's own bugs. So we are in the design phase of it right now to determine the best way to code this so it 1. Works. 2. Doesnt' introduce any of it's own bugs 3. Doesn't slow down the server.

Crosis · Post by **Crosis** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 4:54 am

So how long is this going to take?

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 5:54 am

3 years, 4 months, 12 days, 16 hours, 13 minutes, 2 and 1/2 seconds.

Drogla · Post by **Drogla** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 6:07 am

haha

, but really, how long about?