[crossfire] Map cache

[Rick Tanner]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brendan Lally wrote:
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      In total there are 3888528 occurances of 'arch' in the bigworld maps. (grep)
     
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      If we assume on average that every square has one, and only one floor
     
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      tile, then a little bit of bash and bc gives 2832098 ground squares.
     
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      This means there is 'only' about a million squares with relevant items
     
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      on them, which is still much less. Whether a server could run at full
     
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      speed with that I don't know.
     
     
Is it the world or dungeon maps that when loaded into memory cause the 
server to lag or freeze?

Or is it player related maps such as guilds, apartments, etc. that is 
causing the server to lag or freeze?

I'm inclined to say player related maps.