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WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THESE ANNOYING CRASHES?

by Hazed

Alan is continuing his hunt for the cause of the crashes which have been plaguing us the last few weeks.

He put some debug code into the game to try to narrow down which bits of the code are being called when the game crashes, but so far it hasn’t found anything conclusive.

The next thing he wants to try will involve putting in some more complicated stuff that will force the server to do a core dump in the event of a crash. The trouble is, putting that stuff in requires rebooting the entire server and then babysitting it for a bit, so he’s going to hold off doing it until next weekend, when thanks to the Easter break he’ll have four whole days during which to monitor it.

Therefore, on Friday, the reset will be a bit longer than normal. And after that — we’ll see!

Meanwhile, we’re sorry it’s taking so long to sort all this out, but Alan has to put in debug code a bit at a time to be sure he doesn’t wreck anything else.

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