[crossfire] Re: Moving server towards a modularized system?

[tchize]

Le Mercredi 18 Janvier 2006 18:25, Anton Oussik a écrit :

>Also if some module segfaults, it will not need a restart of the whole
>server, but simply of that module. This should aid the server
>stability, as "something wrong when casting meteor swarm resulting in
>the spell not working" will not disturb someone else killing dragons
>in a dungeon.
>

Well ,technically, as a plugin is loaded in the process memory area and share 
the process pid, a segfault in module mean a segfault in whole server (we are 
not in java where you cant do a catch (Throwable t)

>Having the code highly modular also will mean each module can be
>started as a seperate process (or thread, but that is slightly less
>portable, if somewhat faster), making it possible to run the server
>usefully on SMP systems (or even clusters), and therefore potentially
>much faster than the speed at which the current server runs.
>

Of course when code is modular at this point you can think about 
multiprocesses interaction and all sort of stuff ;) but that's not, i think 
an immediate aim :) (and yes, in this case a segfault in a module is not a 
segfault in core processe :p)

>I don't know if this is what is wanted, but the advantages seem tempting to
> me.

to me too, but for having already explored possibilities of multithreading cf, 
you have to fix before lots of potential concurrency issues :)

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