server up!

[Hollywood]

Wonder how many people are coming here hoping the server is up!

[rabuliz]

Lots I'd imagine. I'm camping this thread as we speak. It reminds me a lot of the raster camp too. Everytime something happens I get excited just to see another damned placeholder [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Maze513]

would love to see this =D +10 would buy again

[Portasaurus]

If the game ever comes back online today, I've got birthday cake slices for you!

Pardon my ignorance, but at this point, I appreciate that the GMs and server admins are looking into the issue, but the big guns are all aware of it at this point (and have been for several hours). If the immediate resolution is flipping a switch to get the world server back online, shouldn't that only take a few minutes? ....Or is RCA being done DURING the downtime?

[Mickets]

It's a lot harder to be pissed off at unexpected server downtime when I'm not paying for it nor are the employees getting paid to fix it. Unlike a certain demon slaying trilogy that shouldn't even need servers to play on...

[Artah]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Heap Corruption with a popup that prevents the batch file from restarting the process because it doesn't fully crash out (main stream keeps running). Kanras and I have spent days worth of time working on going through code from the time it started happening (September - November 2011) checking and rolling back code and haven't found the cause.

Frankly at this point it is the single biggest thing pissing me off, more so than even the latest drama troll scandal.

http://www.rogean.com/images/worldcrash.png

When this happens it just starts spamming connection fails because the UDP Thread of the process is no longer executing, which is also the reason it stops responding to any UDP packets from clients for logging in or zoning.

Thank you for the update, I started to wonder if you guys are not caring about the server anymore, good to know I was wrong.

[rabuliz]

What demon playing trilogy would that be?

[Nordenwatch]

fuck! i DCed in HS after i killed a named but before I looted it, fuck everything im probably dead

[Portasaurus]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Heap Corruption with a popup that prevents the batch file from restarting the process because it doesn't fully crash out (main stream keeps running). Kanras and I have spent days worth of time working on going through code from the time it started happening (September - November 2011) checking and rolling back code and haven't found the cause.

Frankly at this point it is the single biggest thing pissing me off, more so than even the latest drama troll scandal.

http://www.rogean.com/images/worldcrash.png

When this happens it just starts spamming connection fails because the UDP Thread of the process is no longer executing, which is also the reason it stops responding to any UDP packets from clients for logging in or zoning.

Some folks have tossed out band-aid solution ideas and I might as well add to the list while I wait:

I've had an issue where a program would "hard-crash" and pull up th e"this program has stopped responding" window, which is actually some form of the "Doctor Watson" crash handling program.

When that happened, I needed to clear the "this program has stopped responding" window automatically, so I just set up a scheduled task to run "KILL DWWIN.EXE" EVERY minute (or whatever the process was that opened when I got this unwanted pop-up). This way it would completely CLOSE out of the crashed program once the debugger popped up, which would then allow the other scheduled task that tries to run the batch file every minute (as long as that task wasn't already currently running, an option in task scheduler).

Net result is: whenever a crash happens, it closes out of the program automatically, and then the automated scheduled task re-opens my batch file that launches the program.

[Valiant]

yes yes double xp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]