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<H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch</H1>
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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch </LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:03:16 -0700</LI>
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On Thu, 06 Aug 1998 20:34:06 -0000
Ross Nicoll<rnicoll#calmar-mud,com> wrote:
> s001gmu wrote in a Mail about "[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from
> scratch":
>> I believe they also tied that in with the crash-recovery. In
>> case of a seg fault they catch the signal and do a gracefull
>> soft-boot. I dunno if they put a counter/timer in it, to catch
>> things like loading a certain p-file causing the seg-fault (which
>> would send the server into a lovely infinite reboot cycle).
> That wouldn't really suit my MUD, if anything is wrong, it almost
> definately means some of the data is corrupted, and so a database
> save would just crash it again. Anyway, we tend to be up for about
> 2 weeks at a time, which isn't bad...
This is why I roll the DB back to the last known logically correct
and consistent point upon restart. Of course there is a possibility
that the seeds of the prior crash already exist there, but I've
found that to be the rare case.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00530" HREF="msg00530.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch</A></strong>,
Nathan F Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Thu 06 Aug 1998, 18:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00533" HREF="msg00533.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch</A></strong>,
Ross Nicoll <a href="mailto:rnicoll#calmar-mud,com">rnicoll#calmar-mud,com</a>, Thu 06 Aug 1998, 19:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00524" HREF="msg00524.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00534" HREF="msg00534.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch</A></strong>,
Ross Nicoll <a href="mailto:rnicoll#calmar-mud,com">rnicoll#calmar-mud,com</a>, Thu 06 Aug 1998, 19:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01048" HREF="msg01048.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Tue 15 Sep 1998, 23:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00623" HREF="msg00623.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:matt#mpc,dyn.ml.org">matt#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Mon 10 Aug 1998, 10:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00532" HREF="msg00532.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#mail,angel.com">adam#mail,angel.com</a>, Thu 06 Aug 1998, 18:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00520" HREF="msg00520.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch</A></strong>,
Ross Nicoll <a href="mailto:rnicoll#calmar-mud,com">rnicoll#calmar-mud,com</a>, Thu 06 Aug 1998, 15:20 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01010" HREF="msg01010.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Fri 11 Sep 1998, 02:34 GMT
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