[bf1942] Linux server status update 2003-04-28

Steven Hartland killing at barrysworld.com
Tue Apr 29 11:29:14 EDT 2003


You have to be very careful when using unbuffered output as
it can be a total performance killer. From what I have heard
Andreas has all the options in hand so lets just wait an see
what the man who can comes up with shall we.

    Steve / K
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinder Gerritsen" <reinder at strikerz.net>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 4:06 PM
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [bf1942] Linux server status update 2003-04-28


> Some time ago, with the halflife server, there was this bug that a
> malicious player could crash the server with a say command, and some wild
> characters.
> 
> Because of the cashing of this within the same process, the server
> process crashed without flushing the very info that was causing the crash.
> 
> Now I'm not a programmer, not even a beginner at it, but wouldn't it be so
> that this information, when piped out on a socket to a second process to
> do the compressing and writing to disk thingy, was preserved because the
> process generating the logging info is different from the process that is
> doing the logging and compression jobs on it?





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