[CF-Devel] Ghosting problem, weather thoughts

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David Seikel wrote:
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      On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:40:15 -0400 
      
      mikeeusa at caethaver2.ath.cx
      
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      I had big plans for the weather code.  One of the major plans was to move the
     
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      weather code to a separate server, to help with the resource usage (just run
     
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      it on a different box).  That is about half way completed.
     
     
  Just a note - I never really saw that much a point in that - it seems that if 
you are short of resources on the main box, it is probably easier to add 
resources on that first box that have another box in play.

  But it also all depends on what is considered the minimum requirements.  It 
could very well be a case that a 128 MB p2-300 isn't considered appropriate.

  My only real main objection to it being a seperate process is that surely adds 
complexity - you still have all the complexity is the weather program to do the 
generations, but you have added complexity that it needs to communicate those 
changes to/from the server, keep synchronized, etc - and it then depends on how 
that is done and where the resources are really spent on the server (eg, 
loading/saving maps is probably a nontrivial operation, so if the server still 
has to do those, and now update those maps, communicate that data back and 
forth, I'm really not sure how much work is now getting offloaded)


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