Originally by: Mynxee

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Thrilled to see this dev blog, thrilled to check it off as Delivered on the CSM's "CCP Deliverables List" from the Summit, and now actually gonna get a nice cup of coffee and read it. Thanks, Warlock.

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Originally by: Mashie Saldana

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Edited by: Mashie Saldana on 17/08/2010 16:45:56
Back at FanFest 2007 it was a lot of talk about HPC and Infiniband, whatever happened to that? Was it rejected as unsuitable for EVE or is it awaiting a rewrite of the core code?

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Originally by: Master Akira

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Good read. Keep the blogs coming! This community isn't afraid of technobabble.

(Also Oveur, that picture in your FB page /o\)

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Originally by: Tippia

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àand my only question is: in this Fixing Lag series, are you ever going to address (or even just engage in some wild mass guessing) what it was in Dominion that made the system soil itself compared to how it worked in Apocrypha?

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Originally by: Hamish Nuwen

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In the long run, you should stop thinking.

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Originally by: Tippia

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Originally by: CCP Oveur

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Originally by: Tippia

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àand my only question is: in this Fixing Lag series, are you ever going to address (or even just engage in some wild mass guessing) what it was in Dominion that made the system soil itself compared to how it worked in Apocrypha?

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Might want to read the comments on the previous blog in this series, it has your answers.

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It had the answer "yes, wellà there was lag back then too", which isà kind of a non-answer. The question really remains: why did we see such a drastic increase in non-optimal situations from Dominion and onwards (because that's basically what you were saying ù that the same fleet lag happened in Apoc when things the planets weren't aligned right, but this doesn't change that it started to happen far more often after Dominion was deployed)?

What were the steps in this (supposedly) gradual degradation? Why did they all flock together in that one patch? And how were they "differently laggy"? That alone opens up a slew of questions that need to be answeredà

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Originally by: linedash

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Edited by: linedash on 17/08/2010 18:41:17

Originally by: CCP Oveur

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But the first step, and greatest future potential, is to get things to fully capitalize on multi-processor and multi-core. Like spanning a solar system over multiple cores.

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Any chance on more detail on this in general?

Originally by: CCP Warlock

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Medium term will involve recruiting more cpu by going to multi-core servers.

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How come you haven't moved to multi-core machines before now? Surely this would have helped the CPU bound lag issues a lot? Or even just allowed for more cores available to share systems over.

It's always felt like this was CCP being a bit cheap by not doing this before. Honestly curious why you haven't.

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Originally by: Hamish Nuwen

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Originally by: CCP Oveur

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Originally by: Hamish Nuwen

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In the long run, you should stop thinking.

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This. Bliss.

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Meanwhile, you can continue thinking about:

• Weapon grouping at squadron/wing/fleet level


• No cargohold (=database) dependencies in combat (ammunition bays, preloaded scripts, ...)


• Maybe a explicit combat mode (you can't open assets, or market or fitting, any not related with combat) with messaging priority (obviously only those related to combat)


• Isolate client input check (anti-cheat) code, common to all ships/players, from rest of the code (hey, this is a computing task), and scheduling in another processor/cores


• When real-time is a must, ACID is not law (ex. NoSQL movement in Web-based apss)


• More

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Originally by: Nareg Maxence

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Originally by: CCP Oveur

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Originally by: Mynxee

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Thrilled to see this dev blog, thrilled to check it off as Delivered on the CSM's "CCP Deliverables List" from the Summit, and now actually gonna get a nice cup of coffee and read it. Thanks, Warlock.

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Why isn't that list in the Evelopedia?

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Why isn't there a link that says Evelopedia with big friendly letters on the main EVE website?

(Not counting the Item Database link.)

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