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(Message started by: 99of9 on Feb 8^th, 2009, 4:41pm)

Title: Timeout on bot championship server
Post by 99of9 on Feb 8^th, 2009, 4:41pm

Hi Omar,

I'm wondering if you have any ideas why this might have happened. Gnobot just played a game against badger, and lost by timeout on move 3.

The log is here:
http://gold.arimaa.com/~gnobot/logs/8567.gameLog

Gnobot's final move didn't seem to make it to the gameroom server?

My internal logs say it sent that move after 81.9 seconds. (tcbreserve was 119, and tcmove was 30, so this should fit ok).

There was other action on the server at the same time (bot_rat and bot_badger are both playing on it), but this is concerning nonetheless.

Title: Re: Timeout on bot championship server
Post by 99of9 on Feb 8^th, 2009, 7:48pm

Something similar happened again:

http://gold.arimaa.com/~gnobot/logs/10827.gameLog

I have now turned on netLogging, so hopefully will have more info next time.

Title: Re: Timeout on bot championship server
Post by 99of9 on Feb 8^th, 2009, 10:41pm

So it turns out this was my fault - the bot was running at the same time as the post-game analysis from the previous game, and i/o was getting locked up (very high load, but no individual processes showing high cpu usage). I will go easy on the analysis from now on!

Thanks omar.