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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

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

Koub wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:54 pm 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.

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

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)

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.

Well, the server crashed

After doubling the ram, it's running smoothly

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