05-16-2015, 01:52 AM
Regarding a lot of connection issues, party glitches, and so forth, I think i've come across the cause of a lot of this, and more.
After the last couple of updates, when I shut down all the servers, i've been left with several instances that are completely stuck. They don't shut down, and require a manually forced shutdown. The only thing that would cause this is broken timers, and the only way timers could and should break is memory leaks, which with how the cluster works, I would imagine is simply caused by being run too long.
I've been targeting areas of the connection integrity that I felt were potentially the cause, and may have been part of the problem, but I think a new solution is needed to resolve these far too common connection occurrences. After this Pet Arena update, i'll be reworking a few things for how instances work, and designing a system that can safely reset rooms every few hours to avoid problems.
What i'm hoping this will do is fix guild room desyncs, reverts, and resolve most of the connection issues.
Unfortunately this means 7-10 day delay on the next two feature patches, but I think it's a necessary evil.
After the last couple of updates, when I shut down all the servers, i've been left with several instances that are completely stuck. They don't shut down, and require a manually forced shutdown. The only thing that would cause this is broken timers, and the only way timers could and should break is memory leaks, which with how the cluster works, I would imagine is simply caused by being run too long.
I've been targeting areas of the connection integrity that I felt were potentially the cause, and may have been part of the problem, but I think a new solution is needed to resolve these far too common connection occurrences. After this Pet Arena update, i'll be reworking a few things for how instances work, and designing a system that can safely reset rooms every few hours to avoid problems.
What i'm hoping this will do is fix guild room desyncs, reverts, and resolve most of the connection issues.
Unfortunately this means 7-10 day delay on the next two feature patches, but I think it's a necessary evil.