Non Blocking save feedback

[paquerette]

Hi Guys,

Do you have feedback about the non blocking save feature ?

The blocking save is really annoying, so I would like to try this out.

Thanks,
Paquerette

[Koub]

Works only on Linux, and the feedback I've seen on this forum is that it works.

[ptx0]

Works only on Linux, and the feedback I've seen on this forum is that it works.

there's a corner case where saving the game manually while an autosave occurs causes the binary to segfault, I'm waiting on source access from kovarex so I can look into it.

[paquerette]

Thanks for the feedback.
I'll enable the feature tonight and give it a try

[paquerette]

I think I've read that it spawn a second factorio process to handle the save, the server needs to be linux or mac os x, and the windows client autosave is disabled.
Is there a need of addition UDP/TCP port to open ? (I dont think so)

[Koub]

The process is indeed just forked** just to handle the save while the "parent" process keeps the game running, so no, there shouldn't be any need of anything else.
**btw, this is also the reason the option can't work on Windows, as there is no equivalent to fork() function.

[paquerette]

Well, the server crashed

After doubling the ram, it's running smoothly

[paquerette]

After a few hours of play, I can say it's stable for us.