hell_fire

heres a patch for the tolower program, checks for the exact filename of "flashpoint.cfg" (case sensitive) in the current directory before converting filenames. <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"> --- tolower.c.orig 2004-05-09 16:57:56.000000000 +1000 +++ tolower.c 2004-05-09 17:15:03.000000000 +1000 @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include <sys/stat.h> #include <dirent.h> #include <unistd.h> +#include <fcntl.h> #include <string.h> #include <ctype.h> @@ -88,6 +89,18 @@ { /* TODO: command-line argument: directory to convert */ /* TODO: -v (verbose) */ + + /* Sanity check added by Adam Smith (Hell_Fire) */ + int fd; + fd = open("./flashpoint.cfg", O_RDONLY); + if (fd == -1) { + printf("Error: The file \"flashpoint.cfg\" does not exist in current directory.\nSanity check failed, exiting\n"); + exit(1); + } else { + close (fd); + } + /* Sanity check complete */ + int converted = convertDirectory("."); if ( converted <= 0 ) printf("No file-names were converted\n"); Simply put this into a file in the OFP directory (eg, tolower.patch), run the command "patch -i tolower.patch", then rebuild the executable using "gcc tolower.c -o tolower" Enjoy (this patch is classified under the GPL if anyone has any problems :P Its to small for me to care really)

Done, posting it in its own thread... Edit: yeah, i know it won't help, but it does spread the load as the server can have one CPU all by itself :P

All other processes work fine, the server process works poorly, thats not to say it doesn't work, it responds, but over LAN (in game, connected) is reporting a ping of 300000+ ms, and is very jumpy. #monitor reports server FPS of 0-10, mostly between 0-3. But like you said, your running it fine... so maybe theres something else there.

Recompiled and tested, works fine on one CPU... Is there a different server binary compiled with SMP support or do I have to find a sechedule priortizer (i've done that before, but I prefer to still have a fully working SMP) Next i'll try 2.4.26 and 2.6.5 and see how it affects it

hey! i got it for free, a total of 1GHz between the CPUs, and it doesn't have to handle much, just a few mates at the occasional LAN... see my other thread about the race conditions on SMP boxes though

Kernel is a stock 2.4.22 freshly compiled with SMP. I'm recompiling now with another with SMP disabled to see the differences.

Something major happens when running the server on Linux with SMP enabled. Happens with other game servers to... Massive race conditions... More to come...

Check that nscd is running, I missed this because Slackware doesn't run NSCD by default, and my crash was at exactly the same place... I'm running a Dual P3-500 box with Slackware 9.1 Edit: Opps, didn't see the thread was in April... :P I was just searchin Another Edit: Why is there still a reliance on nscd?