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Stop blaming the host for lag :) [message #65991]

Wed, 11 February 2004 11:28

Blazer
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Majiin Vegeta

its actually the bots and scripts they are running.. with all the players and all the logs the bots have a lot of logs to search thru for ladders recommendations.. if they are banned and for what reason...

becoming a strain on servers... even tho all these new things make the servers kewl.. the lag totally ruins it.. it is almost unplayable on most servers

As msgtpain pointed out, the bots actually use very little CPU. Its pretty simple to parse a text file (the renegade log), and looking up join messages and whatnot is just pulling one record out of a database which is also very efficient.

Reminds me of a funny incident. When I first wrote brenbot, I used to have it running on a linux box, and it remotely admined the crimson79 sniper server (it wasn't running on the same PC as the FDS). Some asshole player spent at least 30 minutes telling everyone that the host sucked, and that it was because brenbot was using all the CPU. Everyone told him their FPS was fine and SFPS was fine for them too, but the guy just kept insisting that the bot was "using all the CPU and RAM". Even when I informed him that it wasnt running on the same machine, but sending commands remotely he still argued, then saying that it must be "using up the bandwidth", LOL even though it was only sending a few UDP packets over the LOCAL network to the server Smile

Long story short:

1. You can't please all the people all of the time. Some people love the features of the various Bots, others use them as something to complain about.

2. Nobody knows more than the server owner just how much any other applications are impacting performance of the server. I'm sure any server admin monitors the CPU usage if/when they install anything, and would not run a Bot if the machine couldn't handle the miniscule resources they require.

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		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Crimson on Tue, 10 February 2004 14:36
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: England on Tue, 10 February 2004 14:41
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: snipesimo on Tue, 10 February 2004 15:14
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: flyingfox on Tue, 10 February 2004 15:20
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: DaveGMM on Tue, 10 February 2004 15:34
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: longbow on Tue, 10 February 2004 15:40
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: General Havoc on Tue, 10 February 2004 15:54
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: mrpirate on Tue, 10 February 2004 15:58
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: [HLOW]Tomten on Tue, 10 February 2004 16:51
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: DragonFg on Tue, 10 February 2004 16:56
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Majiin Vegeta on Tue, 10 February 2004 17:03
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: msgtpain on Tue, 10 February 2004 17:28
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Aircraftkiller on Tue, 10 February 2004 17:46
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: forsaken on Tue, 10 February 2004 17:59
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: m1a1_abrams on Tue, 10 February 2004 18:24
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: rm5248 on Tue, 10 February 2004 18:29
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: gibberish on Tue, 10 February 2004 19:03
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: hareman on Tue, 10 February 2004 21:25
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Crimson on Wed, 11 February 2004 01:19
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: m1a1_abrams on Wed, 11 February 2004 09:47
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Creed3020 on Wed, 11 February 2004 10:48
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Alkaline on Wed, 11 February 2004 11:06
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Blazer on Wed, 11 February 2004 11:28
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Crimson on Wed, 11 February 2004 19:48
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Alkaline on Thu, 12 February 2004 19:01
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: gam3rj on Thu, 12 February 2004 20:17
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Majiin Vegeta on Thu, 12 February 2004 20:51
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Crimson on Fri, 13 February 2004 01:26
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: hareman on Sat, 14 February 2004 06:32
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Alkaline on Sat, 14 February 2004 10:11
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: forsaken on Sat, 14 February 2004 16:41
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Aircraftkiller on Sat, 14 February 2004 16:43
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: snipesimo on Sat, 14 February 2004 17:36
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Majiin Vegeta on Sat, 14 February 2004 21:15
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: Crimson on Sun, 15 February 2004 00:56
		Stop blaming the host for lag :) By: exnyte on Sun, 15 February 2004 01:08

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