[CF-Devel] Major bug in CF server

[Michael Toennies]

Hi

In the last time, i notice and get also called from players, a bad
behavior of the last versions of the CF server.

The bug/behavior is a big periodical performance breakin, mainly when you
fight,
but also in "normal" playing.

Because the effect is often "eaten" by lag and get so invisible, i played
now with my
client much on mids server, which is a "high performance" server.

The other good server is the voldsboks server. Voldsboks runs 95.7 from
08.10.2000.

After finishing my client on mids server, i start to notice the bad effect.
If you fight,
the server have BIG performance holes of about 500ms, where the server
simply not send you
anything. Then you got a row, then it stops.

The effect gets mad, if you enter the dragon hangar! Do it!
The game start to be frozen!! Tray praying. You will see, that every second
you stay
in the hangar (and you only enter, do nothing) the server goes more down in
periodical steps.
If you leave, all is fine!

Do it on the 95.7 server - nothing!! The effect is simply not in this
version and not in a version
<95.7 which i can remember.

As one here say, that the new CF version even goes down on a dual pentium, i
think
it is an bug!

I play the dragon hangar much in version 95.7 and lower! Also when i in
fight, get spelled like
mad from all sides the server NEVER has a so big performance loss like this
version.

This is NOT normal. It is definitly a bug!

In normal playing (like running through maps) i notice this performance
holes with my client!

Please, check out the 95.7 version from 08.10. from CVS and install it on
your system, and
look for the difference when you fight the hangar or the wiztower elemental
level.

MichToen