Note  57  Osse         (10/14/08 11:21)  Recent MUD Stability

Players of The Two Towers:
 
Many of you have likely noticed that we have been having some 
stability issues on the MUD over the last week or so. To give
you a general idea of what is going on: basically, the MUD gets
locked into a loop of some sort which maxes out the processor
for exactly a half-hour. It is not an issue with the server itself,
but rather an issue of our MUD driver being a single-thread process.
 
In layman's terms, the MUD freezes for a half-hour, and is unable
to accept/process incoming commands. Some outgoing commands (such
as room chats, etc) still are sent. If you do not try to reconnect
during the half-hour, you will still be connected, and all sent 
commands processed, once the MUD unfreezes. This occurring does
not usually require an early reboot.
 
We are doing everything we can to track down the cause of this
problem, and fix it. We want the MUD to be stable just as much
as you do. We apologize for the interruption and inconvenience
of this - particularly to those of you who suffer inadvertent
character deaths because of it.
 
Thank you for your patience,
 
Osse and the T2T Administration