Got an error message when trying to send an in-game message, about incompatibility between version sth.4 and sth.5, but I that was exactly when you changed over?

Yup that would just be a brief 0.94-0.95 transition thing sllippi

Almost spooked at the lack of problems, not even any error logs :-/

http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=15075 took 45 mins to process last night. (said NOW for 45 mins)

Well that sounds like just the sort of thing this update should help with vexlord

I suspect that I had some move orders 'converted' into supports last night, but I don't have any screenshots to conclusively prove it. C'est la vie! :-)

@ Mack Eye

As I recall, Kestas has server logs of your inputs before any processing was done, so he can check those if you ask him to.

Exception: JSON token given was invalid.

This is the error message i keep getting when i try to finalise or save my moves... Very annoying...

My os is ... Symbian...

gameID=15651

Autumn Diplomacy 1901 was skipped.

Good news for all us Livegame fanatics! :)
Looking forward to a new game!
Thank you kestas!

Thanks Kestas!

wow this update kicks ass :-D

why are you getting bugs at times of heavy load?

i'm vaguely curious how the server orders it's processes, or what cron you have running...
i'll have a look at the cod in a while.

OK, I think I have one potential problem spotted. I was taking time to submit my orders, and ally hit "Ready" after the line had passed. I refreshed the board; and found that the "Ready" flag had been set, without any orders having been issued to my units for the new turn. So the "Ready" flag may be carrying over from one turn to the next in some cases.

Sounds more like the ready was clicked after the turn ran... Whose fault is that one for not getting their orders done in time?

IMO, it's definitely the code's fault if a player clicks Ready on the form with one phase's orders and the code interprets that as Ready for the next phase.

Yes, I realised this same problem last night. I clicked ready for diplomacy, game processed, game went to retreat, game processed. It disbanded my unit...

@ Geofram & PeripheralVisionary (and others who may have noticed this):

Is the danger only if you click Ready near the end of the phase, so that the phase processed while you were looking at it and your Ready was applied to the next phase? Or has this happened when it was only your Ready that caused the phase to end, so that your Ready applied to two phases at once?

@Kestas: that's an easy to fix bug. Just have the button include information matching the phase.

i'd suggest a hidden variable in the form.

I've added a check which should make it reject finalization attempts from expired pages

@orathaic: the load related crashes are caused because several server processes all stack up and occur at the same time, taking up too much memory. Because we're using a shared server and can only take up so much memory they all get killed when they use too much, and this can interrupt games being processed which are detected as crashes

Should we run a fund drive for enough money to get a dedicated server (or at least upgrade the memory cap)?

http://www.slicehost.com/ pretty inexpensive compared to a true dedicated server, stable, full root control and soft bandwidth/processor caps. I use it for everything.

Toby; the monthly cost for the cheapest recommended dedicated server I could find is about 40 euros/month, it'd need continuous fund drives (or to be more realistic it'd need ads)

Hibiskiss; a 256mb virtual server, with an amount of disk space that'd be fairly constrictive (the current map cache and database wouldn't fit in 10gb), would be about 4x what we currently pay, and with 256mb running a mysql server and web server it'd likely be much slower (we're on a 4 processor machine with 4gb ram, plus a separate system running the database)

Don't worry, I think we can continue to optimize/work around the limits for a fair while before we would really have no option but to upgrade hosting

Ah yes, I forgot to add: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ I use that with slicehost for my all my work and personal stuff because it's all scalable with soft caps.
Look into it when the time to upgrade comes along and see what works out for you.

Ill keep that in mind Hibiskiss (in fact I think that's what we use at Facebook webDip), thanks for the recommendation