Caledorn
Emperor
Yet another server freezeup occured yesterday evening. I have left the game down overnight, because I have run some hardware diagnostics (which all checked out green, so the problem 99% certainly software related).
What I have done now, is that I have created a VMWare virtual machine that the games run inside, so if the freezes is related to anything in the Pitboss hosting, the VM should be freezing now and not the server (unless of course the freezes are related to unclosed network sockets, which seemed to be the most plausible explanation as they occured after a specific player played his turns and he plays windowed mode and just clicked the X in the upper right corner instead of Exitting to Main Menu - given that the VM is running on the same Network Interface as the Server it can plausibly freeze up the server, but I believe that the advanced VMWare Network Interface driver inside the VM should prevent it).
The game handily flipped turn a little while before the freeze happened though, so I have reloaded the game from the turn flip autosave, which means nothing should have been lost at all in this game.
What I have done now, is that I have created a VMWare virtual machine that the games run inside, so if the freezes is related to anything in the Pitboss hosting, the VM should be freezing now and not the server (unless of course the freezes are related to unclosed network sockets, which seemed to be the most plausible explanation as they occured after a specific player played his turns and he plays windowed mode and just clicked the X in the upper right corner instead of Exitting to Main Menu - given that the VM is running on the same Network Interface as the Server it can plausibly freeze up the server, but I believe that the advanced VMWare Network Interface driver inside the VM should prevent it).
The game handily flipped turn a little while before the freeze happened though, so I have reloaded the game from the turn flip autosave, which means nothing should have been lost at all in this game.