NPCServer updates

Admins · #1 03-31-2009, 02:25 PM

Today all servers have been restarted. Beside some bug fixes in gserver this also brings some new stuff for npcservers:

- /scripthelp now supports wild cards (*) and can combine type names and function name / description, that means you can search for stuff like /scripthelp player*hp

- added server-side support for TDrawingPanel: do temp.panel = new TDrawingPanel(), temp.panel.drawimage(0,0,"myimage.png"), temp.panel.saveimage(mynewfilename)

- improved speed

- added more stuff in /stats (shows memory usage) and admin-commands for analyzing the engine speed (so I can help better in certain cases)

Update:
- urlencode(string) - encodes urls for http GET requests (TSocket)

fragman85 · #2 03-31-2009, 04:38 PM

- /scripthelp now supports wild cards (*) and can combine type names and function name / description, that means you can search for stuff like /scripthelp player*hp

Awesome

Deas_Voice · #3 03-31-2009, 04:52 PM

okey, cool.

Frankie · #4 03-31-2009, 05:28 PM

I used to get horrible fps lag and I've noticed it's gone. did this cause this or was it just a coincidence?

if so, definitely a big difference.

cbk1994 · #5 03-31-2009, 06:04 PM

Thank you Stefan

Any chance this will fix Era's horrible fits of lag?

Admins · #6 03-31-2009, 08:01 PM

Era has sometimes lag problems because of the memory it uses.

cbk1994 · #7 03-31-2009, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Stefan

Era has sometimes lag problems because of the memory it uses.

Doesn't seem like to me. The server crashes around 7:00 PM constantly, and sometimes around 2-3 PM (EST, both of the times). Doesn't matter how many players are on, or what is happening. It's happened before with less than 20 players on.

The NPC-server just stalls, and /npcshutdown takes about ten minutes, as does /npcstart.

Admins · #8 03-31-2009, 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Doesn't seem like to me. The server crashes around 7:00 PM constantly, and sometimes around 2-3 PM (EST, both of the times). Doesn't matter how many players are on, or what is happening. It's happened before with less than 20 players on.

The NPC-server just stalls, and /npcshutdown takes about ten minutes, as does /npcstart.

There is a daily and a weekly backup running.

cbk1994 · #9 04-01-2009, 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stefan

There is a daily and a weekly backup running.

So why don't you reschedule it to like 4 AM when no one is on? 7 PM is a time when we have a ton of players on, so it affects a large number of people.

Twinny · #10 04-01-2009, 03:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cbk1994

So why don't you reschedule it to like 4 AM when no one is on? 7 PM is a time when we have a ton of players on, so it affects a large number of people.

Probably at a goodtime for themselves so they can quickly react if it goes wrong...

Not a good thing to cron a major update

WhiteDragon · #11 04-01-2009, 03:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Doesn't seem like to me. The server crashes around 7:00 PM constantly, and sometimes around 2-3 PM (EST, both of the times). Doesn't matter how many players are on, or what is happening. It's happened before with less than 20 players on.

The NPC-server just stalls, and /npcshutdown takes about ten minutes, as does /npcstart.

Sounds to me like because of I/O going crazy for some reason or another with the backup, the server load shoots up and prevents any of the processes from working, including most of Era since it uses file-based storage not memory.
Then again this is just speculation.