[Freeciv-Dev] Re: freezing system (PR#740)

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On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 10:24:08PM -0700, rcorkum@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Submission from: (NULL) (209.87.204.151)
> 
> 
> seemed to be only the one game on port 5557 on the metaserver but it
> was well freezing us out of the game, I got back in for a second and 
> confirmed I
> wasn't
> the only one.

This is a bug in 1.11.4, never reported with the development version.
(Having a new release would help here.)

> What was so terrible about this freeze that I had ZERO access to my pc at the
> time. couldn't
> even reboot linux had to physically power down to get access.

This is supposed to be impossible.  The only applications that
hang the system, in my experience, are those that take massive
amounts of memory; this is a situation the rteleases of Linux
that I've used didn't handle well.  But the Freeciv client doesn't
need a lot of memory.  So I'm really wondering what was going on there.
Let us know if it happens again ...

> there were a couple game windows open on the main window when it
> happened but it occured twice.  being NEW to freciv not sure if
> this is a common thing or not so thought I'd report it.

Thanks.  Note that there are also a few CVS servers on civserver.freeciv.org.
If you compile the CVS client and play on a CVS client, the game hangups
are supposed to disappear.
 
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