Comments on: Loadtesting for Open Beta, Part 3

By: Cleetose

Cleetose — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:30:46 +0000

Those robots are really good at playing spy, but not so good at sniper. Makes sense.

By: checker

checker — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:00:32 +0000

I’m running a slightly old version of kerberos because I’ve got some local changes I need to integrate up to the latest version still, so I had to fix them all locally.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:35:11 +0000

Your debugging stories are really interesting, because complicated bugs are my worse nightmare. But pardon my lack of understanding (I really should follow better, considering I’m in computer science), could you briefly summarize what the problem was and how it was fixed? It sounds vaguely like a Kerberos problem that was fixed in a commit from a later version, but you mentioned a local change which makes it sound like a problem on your end.

By: swenson

swenson — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:44:46 +0000

I also mess around with LDAP and Kerberos in my job (I recently had to configure them for something like twenty-six servers… it gets really old after the first fifteen…), and it was quite a surprise to see them mentioned here! I wasn’t actually aware either was open source (although we use LDAP, not OpenLDAP).

By: checker

checker — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:44:06 +0000

Yeah, linux and the entire open source ecosystem is totally great. I had a guy come up to me after a lecture about this stuff one time and say, “I administrate kerberos for my day job at google, I never thought I’d hear about it at a game conference!” :)

By: Wessel

Wessel — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:50:26 +0000

Although I have been coding for quite a few years now, I learned to work with Linux servers only a few months ago during an internship project. Cool to see concepts I learned about then (manpage, top) are used for SpyParty development as well :).

By: Quirken

Quirken — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:07:49 +0000

Also: I would love to see an easter egg partygoer that was a cyborg named 384 :) or just someone named 384.

By: Quirken

Quirken — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:07:09 +0000

Glad you found the bugs. I tried debugging a P2P app I wrote back in 2006… debugging networked code is bad enough. It is a NIGHTMARE to debug things in the cloud.

As a thought, maybe you could still put limits on how quickly people can join, in open beta? Set it up so 500 or 1000 people get an invite every day, just to offset the time. You’d be letting everyone on the list in in no time at all, and new signups wouldn’t have to wait very long, either.

By: keith

keith — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:55:22 +0000

Load tester 384-the robot with a will to survive. Spyparty fan fiction!