Topic: 8:30 PM EST Saturday: Power back on, Squadron Command Server back up

[GDA-S'Cipio]

Hi, all:

More blackouts happened around me today.  Apparently the city power grid is still not "cool" with Hurrican Ivan aftermath.

Power surged once this afternoon, dropping the server, and then as soon as I got it back up power went down for the next 6 hours throughout a large part of the entire county.  Sorry for yet another loss of time. 

As long as it was down, I took the chance to clean the DB and make a few edits to clean up a mess from a typo in the gf settings files.

-S'Cipio the sorry

[Kroma BaSyl]

Hmmm....8:52 EST it ain't on the list again. Guessing you and Dr Nyet are having a candle lit dinner.

[GDA-S'Cipio]

No, it should be up.  It did drop very briefly, but that was just a "normal" server crash.

I'll be checking on it periodically tongiht, and maybe I'll eve get to play.  It should be up from now on.

Of course, I did just hear  a news report that Ivan is growing stronger again and may reform.....

-S'Cipio

[Kroma BaSyl]

It seemed to come back up. It had reset from the state it was before the crash this morning, even after I played for about half an hour. 5 or 6 missions. Real slow generating missions and I think either keeps burping while I am in mission or it is just timing out when I come out of mission because it is so slow. The economy seems to be spamming the news. Had trouble drafting or being drafted by Rolandus. Could just be out connections to each other, but might be the server being to slow to negotiate the setup I guess.

[Kroma BaSyl]

No, it should be up.  It did drop very briefly, but that was just a "normal" server crash.

I don't think it was a normal crash as it reverted the map back at least 1/2 hour. I had flipped a hex and run several successful AI missions in others. After losing connection I logged back in to find I was back at the Gorn base I logged off on Thursday night with the PTDL as a wing again even though I have sold it and bought the Interceptor Leader like 5 different times now over the course of the day.

[FPF-DieHard]

Herr Burt, if you need help keeping it up, I'm sure Kroma can assist . . . 

[Kroma BaSyl]

Herr Burt, if you need help keeping it up, I'm sure Kroma can assist . . . 

Listen to the man, he knows of what he speaks. I kept his up for 2 weeks.

[Kroma BaSyl]

Also, getting countdowns and back to map with blacked out mission button, even in empty hexes. Very strang. Seems like the server just never returns the info about how is in the hex even to tell you it is empty. Mission generation real slow. Econ spamming rampent. Funniest one in the news right now say "Space Monster has lost rank, going from 17 to 3". But there are plenty more of those messages.

[Kroma BaSyl]

About every other time I come out of mission I lose connection, even if the server hasn't gone down. Like I timeout because the update is so slow.

[GDA-S'Cipio]

I took the server back off of the router to see if that helps Kroma's connection problems.

In tomorrow's clean, I'll try to adjust the frequency at which backups are made of the database.  How far back in time a server goes at restart is a function of how long it has been since the last backup.  Even a "normal" server crash has to restart from the last backup.  I set the backups to only every 30 minutes, hoping to minimize the load on the platform.  So, if the server crashes at just the right time, you can lose 30 minutes. 

However, given the power problems I've had this weekend, in hindsight that probably wasn't a good idea.  I'll set i to every 10 minutes next time I clean or next time a crash happens.  (Whichever comes first.)

Next time I clean I'll also edit the DB to add some pirate cartel hexes.  That should slow the number of times that races change position, since currently the pirates all have the same econ (0) and so the server seems to keep recalculation who is ahead of whom.  That should slow the amount of messages in the news.

-S'Cipio