[Freeciv-Dev] server hangs

[Mark Hayden <hayden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are the people on this list aware that the server has
a tendency to hang for 10-20 minutes when playing with
large numbers of clients?  I see all this traffic about
various play features, but nothing regarding the fact
that the server has this serious bug.  I would say that
fixing these problems would improve the game a 100 times more
than adding tribal gods or whatever else, because it
would make the game playable.

Imagine getting 10 people to join a game,
playing for an hour, and then having the game break up
because the server hangs for 20 minutes.  I bet
this turns alot of people off from the game.

A likely cause of the problem was described in a bug report
I posted over 2 weeks ago, #280, for which I have seen only
one message on this list.  I haven't seen any other traffic
related to fixing server hangs.  

Also, perhaps it would make sense to add a timer in the server
to watch for hangs and report them in a log.

--Mark