[bf1942] Coop mode uses all CPU, denies client connections

[Christopher Kunz]

ScratchMonkey wrote:
> I hadn't tried coop mode before this week and discovered that using it 
> quickly soaks up all available CPU and makes it impossible for clients 
> to connect. My ssh sessions became unresponsive (eventually they 
> accepted the command to kill the server) and the server zoomed to the 
> top of the list in top. Anybody connected to my TeamSpeak server dropped 
> off as it was unable to relay packets (thank god for auto-reconnect!) 
> and my other servers (Tribes 2) started dropping players.

Well, that's because the BF42 server uses up all physical memory, starts 
swapping _REALLY_ heavily and the kernel starts killing off other processes.

There seems to be HUGE leckage somewhere in the Coop code, and it 
seemingly was introduced with 1.31.

> BTW, once this works right, how do I control the number of bots, and how 
> do I get them all on one team? I want to set up a passworded practice 
> and use the bots as "sparring partners", so I need as many bots as 
> people on my team. I then want to cycle the map to simulate match 
> conditions.

The bots will disconnect one by one for each human player disconnecting, 
so if you want to have them play against an all-human team, you'll have 
to do nothing.

Upon disconnection of one human user, a bot will connect again.

However, if you want to pit, like, 2 human players against 62 bots, I 
don't know how to manage that. I think that's not possible.

--ck


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