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<LI><em>From</em>: "Koster, Raph" <<A HREF="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 22:42:38 -0500 </LI>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: J C Lawrence [<A HREF="mailto:claw#varesearch,com">mailto:claw#varesearch,com</A>]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 9:56 PM
> To: mud-dev#kanga,nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing
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> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:21:28 -0700 (PDT)
> Matthew Mihaly <diablo#best,com> wrote:
>
> > ... but I don't think our mobile ai is particularly complicated,
> > although currently mobiles do things regardless of whether players
> > are in the room (such as wander about, sleep to heal if wounded,
> > gather items they find, etc).
>
> Conversely this is a point where I currently spend massive numbers
> of cycles. Its rather ugly.
In UO we actually turned most of that off, in the end, despite a major part
of the design being based around it. :(
> > We think we're going to have to convert to a UO-style system where
> > we split upt he land geographically and run the different areas on
> > different servers. That SEEMS, to my not-very-knowledgeable-self,
> > to be something that we shouldn't have to do just to get past 100
> > players online (i figure I can squeeze out another 33% performance
> > from careful optimization).
>
> The above simultaneous simulated user load was on a low end
> AlphaStation with 192Meg of RAM (forget CPU # and clock) whose
> performance is roughly equivalent to a P300 with 64Meg RAM (Alpha
> code and data density is very low). That box got me up to 700
> users, at which point it essentially cratered. Given a decent PC
> base, I see little reason you shouldn't be able to pass the 1,500
> point modulus Linux kernel issues (such as the single IO lock).
UO has around 800 players per map, and generally 2400 NPCs/creatures, on
what are basically nice Pentium II dual-processor workstations (we split the
load between the processors--one gets traffic, the other handles the map).
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00727" HREF="msg00727.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
Katrina McClelan <a href="mailto:kitkat#marcus,pants.nu">kitkat#marcus,pants.nu</a>, Fri 11 Jun 1999, 01:35 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00745" HREF="msg00745.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Fri 11 Jun 1999, 05:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00741" HREF="msg00741.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
Petri Virkkula <a href="mailto:pvirkkul#iki,fi">pvirkkul#iki,fi</a>, Fri 11 Jun 1999, 04:09 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00734" HREF="msg00734.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00667" HREF="msg00667.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Thu 10 Jun 1999, 03:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00680" HREF="msg00680.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Thu 10 Jun 1999, 06:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00693" HREF="msg00693.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Thu 10 Jun 1999, 14:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00335" HREF="msg00335.html">[MUD-Dev] Searching the archives</A></strong>,
claw <a href="mailto:claw#kanga,nu">claw#kanga,nu</a>, Fri 28 May 1999, 06:10 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00331" HREF="msg00331.html">[MUD-Dev] [TECHNICAL] How to generate pre-processor output (template problem).</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Fri 28 May 1999, 04:45 GMT
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