One of the major problems arising from technical issues that either involve a mass disconnection of users (like a network issue that has to do with major backbone failures or the server's connectivity) or situation where a server restart while people are connected is needed, is that any extensions r...

Yes, that's correct. In the init() method of your Room extension you take a reference to the Zone Extension and use internalRequest to get the reference to the Scheduler. This way you just do it once. Could you provide some AS code example for this? Should tasks be added in the room extension but o...

My users are very verbal (not in a good way) when the game apps have issues. It took about 45 minutes for 1.6.8 logs to start getting flooded with user login failures, and messages started taking 4 or 5 seconds to travel back and forth from the clients to the servers. Users started getting booted en...

I was forced to roll back to 1.6.6, as 1.6.8 seemed to increase the messages in the extension handler queue size to 50-80 (while on 1.6.6 they're always 0 or 1) which in turn rendered the server extremely unresponsive and slow (even though the cpu load was still at 0..)

Server updated to 1.6.8. I'll have to wait now for another occurrence of the problem, and I'll report back with my findings.

I also get instances of this error mixed with the other ones once the game enters this state: [ WARNING ] > Generic exception in JoinRoom Request > user_name - java.lang.NullPointerException org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException: Can't find method it.gotoandplay.smartfoxserver.extensions.Abstrac...

I've been having this problem for quite a while and I've been trying to track it down, alas with no success. It is for a 2 or 4 player cards game where people join a server created room. The game creator joins first who in turn issues a "ready" signal and sequentially the server joins the ...

The hammering was coming from the same IP, and from what it seems it was not a DoS attack, but rather some client getting stuck in an endless loop,with some undefined value causing the null byte message. The ip was not from the same subnet, but rather a well known ISP's client dsl line. I don't thin...

Today my server ran out of memory after a tremendous flood of null sized messages. (Message exceed allowed max length! (0 bytes) from > /91.132.177.242) The flood was so intense, I'm talking about thousands if not tens of thousands entries in the log, with a frequency of 8 or 9 such messages being f...

I didn't know where else to write this.. but Lapo.. I don't know how close you live to L'Aquila, but first I hope that you're all right and second I extend my sympathies to you and your country for the terrible disaster that has struck you. Me, being a greek and living in Greece, I've had my fair sh...

I'm onto a very similar project and I've been thinking about coping with the network lag. The problem basically is that the clients can never be synchronized, and if they try to be jumpiness in the game will occur. For instance, I thought of maybe keeping tabs of each connected client's latency on t...

You're a lifesaver. Bug spotted. Instead of

jResponse = new Object();
jRespones._cmd = "error";

i did

jResponse = new Object();
jRespones = "error";

Fixed and it's working ok now..

I only need to find what causes duplicate rooms...

Lately I've been getting this error in my logs, which is a bit fishy. INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/03/09 03:30:52 | [cards_lobby.as]: Exception! JavaException: it.gotoandplay.smartfoxserver.exceptions.ExtensionHelperException: Create room failed: room already exist INFO | jvm 1 | 2009/03/09 03:30:52 | 03:30:...

Of course you can. You can either join your values into a single string using a delimiter (like a coma, but I prefer a pipe |, i.e. 14|56|4|19|1 ), or if you use standard lengths for your values, you can even put them as a a series of non delimited values (adding leading zeros to make them uniform i...

The server-side communications log feature is a nifty one, but as it is pointed out in the manual, it is not meant to be used in a live server. As there are live deployments that get errors which occur only after a boatload of users use the application and find something that you didn't account for,...