Someone noticed. I'm almost a nutrition expert now :) And feel 20 years younger.
I hadn't noticed, but looking at the progress now, congrats! And kudos for not taking Drury's post the wrong way, this could be read as very offensive and for a minute I wondered why it wasn't removed yet :P I'm ...

So, I looked into it and as far as I can tell, linux will not swap out process memory fro disk cache. There is a kernel parameter called swappiness that determines whether a failed allocation will steal space by swapping out processes memory or io cache, but that seems to be the only relation I ...

the solution is to get more ram so you never swap out.

That's not quite right. I could add terabytes of RAM, but as long as my server keeps reading data from hard drives that are larger than the amount of RAM (most people have more disk space than RAM), it will sooner or later swap out unused ...

When connecting to the headless server after not playing for a few days, the client hangs 'waiting for server to save map' for a few minutes. I suspect it's due to swapping, as I see swap usage going down until the point where the map saves. My swap space is hard drive-based, which probably ...

it would take users a very long time to find out that some functions, such as getting the current real time, were not available

Why is that, actually? I feel like this is one of the things requested fairly frequently, and you don't strike me as a company where management would go "but then people ...

Yeah it would be nice if this could be indicated somehow. I have the admins configured in my config file, like for 0.16, and the game just start up fine but I'm not an admin. Took some searching yesterday night to find that it had changed to a dedicated file (for no apparent reason).

So the workaround is to make sure the items are adjacent? E.g. fill it up with dummy items that do not play a sound if you want spacing?

Thank you for the kind words!

[*] Improved fluid simulation threading. Decreases CPU usage. Threading available on all operating systems. Simulation performance should remain unchanged.

I don't understand this one. Fluid simulation is better threaded and decreases CPU usage... but performance should remain unchanged? Will ...

So... I don't completely understand what you said, but sounds like the code could be made to not perform the force-unmerge when the belt is set to read-only mode?

Can we cure it, doctor?

Savefile: https://lgms.nl/tmp/factorio-sound.zip

I just tested it in single player, and it also occurs there. To quickly reproduce, running the game at speed 50 (not sure how much of that I actually reached, probably only like 10× speed or so) for a minute or two shows the effect.

At full zoom, it ...

Context: I made a simple music editor that reads a belt and plays different notes on the programmable speaker for different items.

https://i.snag.gy/xa3Fw4.jpg

The items were (painstakingly) spaced apart to make a simple tune, but as can be seen in the screenshot, the items have grouped into ...

I can't use this mod in 0.17 anymore: it causes my game to try to use >10GB of memory when loading the map (and RAM is still more expensive today than it was in 2016, so I didn't upgrade to 16GB yet). Without this mod, it uses about 5.5GB.

Err okay, I don't know how I never noticed that. Just checked in my local game, you're right of course. I hope I can unsee this, maybe it will now bother me until the end of time

just a generel save of the game, or where the fault has occured ?


The save file of the map on which you get this issue. Like, if you go to Play -> Load game -> myepicbase, then the file myepicbase.zip is what you should attach so that the devs can load it up in their development environments ...

Looks similar to my bug a few days ago: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=69585

The answer was "you messed up the game files, just do a fresh install". I don't remember messing with my files, though. Did you do anything odd to your files?

At the very least, I'd say the error is a ...

That one seems to have been fixed though -- at least, I assume that I would totally have noticed a train with inserters looking buggy like that.

Pretty crappy to close a bug report as "meh, won't fix this, too much work" and then later do it anyway without posting back to the original thread.

Thanks EraYaN, good to hear I'm not the only one!

Just got a crash trying to connect to the stress test while it was trying to catch up. I don't think it caught up, it was going quite slow, though I alt-tabbed away so I can't be sure.

I turned off crash uploading because I hadn't had a crash in years and I'd report it manually anyway. I understand ...

No mods are (or have been) installed in my 0.17 install, both client and server.

As for the version, I wrote "the server is also at 0.17.31".

As for why multiplayer would even by trying to apply migrations? Maybe that's the bug