As a follow up, I should mention there are a few 10TB VPS providers out there with relatively good port bandwidth at about 2.0+ MBps sustained, so it's also easy to get bandwidth capacity for 1000+ users.

PM me if you need details.

Guestimate (sp) is about 2-7 KBps per player optimized for a simple realtime twitch game. You might be able to get it even lower but for a illustration purposes, lets say you get down to 2 KBps. A Linode server is more transfer limited so you'll likely hit the Linode512 monthly cap of 200GB at about...

Indeed. Runnable tasks do not however get their own thread. They're executed as their delays are triggered. During which time, they occupy one of the threads in the pool. Once they're done, they are taken off that thread, and another takes its place. The documentation refers to resizeThreadPool, whe...

Would it work for you if you do the disconnect on the client side in the LOGIN_ERROR event?

The idle kick still cleans it up on the server side, but it probably would still be nice if there was a server side thing explicitly for this - unless the idle connection doesn't count towards a CCU.

As an update, java wasn't actually installed. Those messages were coming from install4j's bundled jre. It also turns out that 1&1 really means it when they say 512 was the guaranteed RAM. Any allocation above that fails horribly so it didn't take much to break it. You have to have enough free RA...

This might have been what you mean, but just to be clear...

Use the master SmartFoxServer.getTaskScheduler with multiple runnables one per room. This way, you leverage the same thread pool and it doesn't matter how many rooms you have.

Sounds like something in your custom login extension is starting to throw exceptions after a while. Maybe you're forgetting to release a database resource or something like that? Just to be sure, use a try-catch block around your code and log any exceptions it throws instead of relying on the main c...

Your guaranteed ram is 512. Then you've really have only 117MB left that you can be sure Java can allocate on that OpenVZ VPS. Allocations between your guaranteed region and burst limit are iffy and can return quite a few failures depending on how loaded the system is. So set Xms and Xmx to somethin...

Did you reduce the values depending on how much actual free ram you have?

Use free -m and look at the +/- line.

You should also leave some extra room because Java allocates some other stuff (like stack) outside of that heap value.

I kinda forgot to mention it earlier (sorry), but move the debug options in your batch file to before the -cp option.

Don't ask me why.

No. The batch file will invoke java directly with the parameters. The standalone.exe doesn't invoke the batch file.

When you startup via the batch.. do you see

Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 8787

anywhere in the console? Make sure you're not running the sfs2x-standalone.exe because I forgot where my shortcut was pointing and did that myself.

Um... if you don't mind doing it another way,

Remove the S99sfs2x and with that link you just placed in /etc/init.d/

Run



That's more the Debian way of doing things so hopefully it'll just work.

I forgot to say, run with sudo (or as root)

I checked the documentation to see if there was a way to log debug in a file on the server and I did not see it. I checked the API to see if there was a function to do this and I did not see it. The trace function seemed only relevant to flash users. I checked to see where the main entery point for...