Subject: Breaking the silence

From: [email-masked] (Chad Wilson)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 10:31:01 -0700

Just thought I'd break the e-mail silence with a posting of stuff.

Question #1:
  Will the netork stuff be dumped with the next core release?

Question #2:
  someone previously wrote on *server on LambdaMOO, that the memory the
MOO allocates to run processes in is never deallocated, but is resued by
the MOO over and over again.  It also stated that it's only vm being
allocated.  Well, that's the error I'm getting with my MOO.  those
scrabble boards have a lot of code behind them.  Is this a possible cause
of my problems along with NextStep being a sucky platform to run a MOO from?

Question #3:
  When will the next release of the MOO server be out?  And when is
disk-basing going to be an option?

done.

I have broken the silence.  Au revoir mes amis.

- wilson@lambda/opal/tech/vamp/scrabble/media...

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From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 10:52:29 -0700

> Date:	Mon, 5 Jul 1993 10:31:01 -0700
> From:	[email-masked] (Chad Wilson)
> 
>   Will the network stuff be dumped with the next core release?

Yes, or at least the great majority of it.  I think that this includes the
Gopher support.

> of my problems along with NextStep being a sucky platform to run a MOO from?

The problem is that there are bugs in the NeXT memory allocator such that
(apparently) it fragments memory to such a degree that you can `run out' well
before there's none left.  I recommend trying to get NeXT to fix their bugs or
(probably better) moving to a more reliable operating system.

> disk-basing going to be an option?

Version 1.8.0 of the server, including error signalling and handling,
significantly improved network support (probably including support for running
network *servers* from MOO code), many bug fixes and substantial cleanup of
some key internal interfaces (including the one to the DB storage method), will
be probably be released sometime this fall.

Version 1.9.0, including support for disk-based DB storage, will probably come
out sometime in the early winter.

Please note the word `probably' in the above time estimates.  I have way too
many demands on my time right now and can't commit to anything more than vague
estimates; in particular, it's possible that there won't be any new server
releases anytime this year.  The above estimates, though, are my current best
guesses.

	Pavel