Server Issues: Crashes, Lag, Restarts, Rollbacks

[loftar]

but the first post says it ''might start getting ugly 300-400 people''

Only in relation to CPU usage.

[ElGato]

What's happening now?

[mikaela1988]

When will the server be online again?

[Adama]

Only time will tell, lets just hope the devs aren't asleep, which is plausible if they live in Sweden...

[GabrielZorrilla]

I wanna believe some kind of auto reboot daemon is running...

[sabinati]

there is no auto reboot and never will be

[minck1]

there is no auto reboot and never will be

Why not have an auto resboot system?

[sabinati]

because crashes are caused by bugs and auto rebooting would make them worse.

[Pacho]

Not to mention the loss of data.

[loftar]

Not to mention the loss of data.

Indeed; the primary reason for not auto-restarting the server is because I am instead having it enter a yield loop upon crashes, enabling me to attach a debugger, repair any obvious data corruption and then call the appropriate functions to save all the game data, thus avoiding roll-backs. It is only in rather rare cases of non-repairable corruption (or a couple of times now and then when I just mess up) that roll-backs happen.