Arimaa Forum - Print Page


    
      
        Arimaa Forum
        (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/forum/cgi/YaBB.cgi)
      

        Arimaa >> Site Discussion >> Server Glitches?
        
(Message started by: unic on Apr 29^th, 2006, 9:30am)

Title: Server Glitches?
Post by unic on Apr 29^th, 2006, 9:30am

The server seems to occasionally become unreachable - connections with the game room are lost, and one can't access any part of the arimaa.com website.

This has happened to me from two different computers, in two different countries, with two different ISPs, so I assume the problem is at the server end and not at my end. (Plus, other web pager / connections still work fine.)

It is annoying, because if it takes a little while for the server to come back (as it did this time), whoever was at move loses on time.

See game 30161 - I strenously object to that being a loss on time for Fairy, as Fairy sent its move - Fairy can hardly be blamed for the server not working at the time.

If the server is not stable (which clearly is the case), it really should handle games being adjourned in a graceful manner, so as to avoid such situations.

Title: Re: Server Glitches?
Post by unic on Apr 29^th, 2006, 12:33pm

... and again - this time both I and Fairy were playing, and were both given a loss on time. This means that out of the latest (as I write this) 11 games, 8 has been decided on time - presumably in most cases (definitely in 3 for me and Fairy) due to the server glitches.

Please - either get the server stable or implement a graceful way of adjourning games when things like this happen!

It is very frustrating trying to beat the bot-ladder / test new improvements in my program when things like this keep happening.

Title: Re: Server Glitches?
Post by unic on Apr 29^th, 2006, 4:25pm

... and yet again (though only Fairy this time). It's really frustrating, to watch a hardfought game for 50 moves, and then it ends with no proper resolution because the server crashes.

Please, I beg, add the ability for games to get adjourned in cases like this! It would be much better to be able to resume the game once the server is back up rather than having lost it all.

Title: Re: Server Glitches?
Post by chessandgo on Apr 29^th, 2006, 5:03pm

Yes, same for kami and I disconnected each one in one of our 2 games ...

Title: Re: Server Glitches?
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 29^th, 2006, 7:47pm

I wonder what is going on. Server problems seem to come in waves. For a while it seemed the server never went down, but in the past week it seems to have been down all the time. Perhaps there are simply more folks playing, and the load is too great?

Title: Re: Server Glitches?
Post by omar on May 12^th, 2006, 10:49pm

Yeah, it does seem to come in waves. Im not sure what caused it this time. Most likely it was getting overloaded. It seems to be stable now.

Feel free to change the game to be unrated when this happens.

Title: Re: Server Glitches?
Post by chessandgo on May 14^th, 2006, 8:41pm

never mind the rating ;)

In another thread, the idea of raising funds to improve the server was raised ... and I recall that Fritz suggested that the entrance fee to Wch or postal tourney could be used for it. Looks a promising idea !

Omar or others, can you tell me roughly how much is needed to get a more "powerfull" server to fit with the community growth ??

Jean

Title: Re: Server Glitches?
Post by unic on May 14^th, 2006, 8:52pm

on 05/14/06 at 20:41:42, chessandgo wrote:

never mind the rating ;)

Indeed! What frustrates me is spending an hour playing or watching an exciting game and never getting to find out how it ends...