[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch

[J C Lawrence <claw#under,engr.sgi.com>]

On Thu, 06 Aug 1998 20:34:06 -0000 
Ross Nicoll<rnicoll#calmar-mud,com> wrote:

> s001gmu wrote in a Mail about "[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from
> scratch":

>> I believe they also tied that in with the crash-recovery.  In
>> case of a seg fault they catch the signal and do a gracefull
>> soft-boot.  I dunno if they put a counter/timer in it, to catch
>> things like loading a certain p-file causing the seg-fault (which
>> would send the server into a lovely infinite reboot cycle).

> That wouldn't really suit my MUD, if anything is wrong, it almost
> definately means some of the data is corrupted, and so a database
> save would just crash it again. Anyway, we tend to be up for about
> 2 weeks at a time, which isn't bad... 

This is why I roll the DB back to the last known logically correct
and consistent point upon restart.  Of course there is a possibility
that the seeds of the prior crash already exist there, but I've
found that to be the rare case.

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