[bf1942] Linux server status report 2003-04-14

[Erik Mattsson]

Sounds like very good progress on your part! Hear hear!

Hope you can stay on the case even though we now have blazing sun and 12
degrees centigrade.... (like midsummer to a swede... :) )

Best regards!

// Erik Mattsson, erik at mattsson.net

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Fredriksson, Andreas wrote:

>
> Hi people, here's a status rundown since last week.
>
> - I've been spending time reproducing and verifying the bungee effect
>   and other known bugs of the current 1.31 release. This week I will
>   focus on trying to reproduce these on our current version with simulated
>   conditions. As I've mentioned to people in private communication, we
>   are pretty certain that we will fix the bungee effect for the next
> release.
>
> - Also this week I will begin compatibility testing of our new binary with
>   a few of the popular Linux distributions (I use gentoo myself).
>
> - Road to Rome maps work as expected now.
>
> - Before the weekend we had a big LAN playtest here at the office of both
>   the win32 and linux dedicated servers and they behaved identically as far
>   as everyone involved could tell--a good sign. Performance of the linux
>   server binary was pretty amazing: about 1%user+0.5%sys CPU load for 17
> clients
>   (2100 AMD running a conquest map).
>
> In other news, the second snow wave here in Sweden is finally melting away
> with
> happy faces as a result. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>