Ruvanal,Nov 3 2005, 06:12 PM Wrote:On the Master status of the the GuildedDKP are you sure you have been put to the same stress of requests that Quark has.[right][snapback]94018[/snapback][/right]
On this question, I am absolutely certain. I have logged in after Quark -- thus taking over the Master control -- prior to raids I lead, on more than one occasion. There is almost no time when Guilded is more "stressed" by players logging in to the game than the half-hour before a raid, and I've managed the process of automatically broadcasting GuDKP data to everyone who has GuDKP installed without any system interruption.
Quote:It did not sound like there was even a message so that you would know that someone was actually polling you at the time.
We're polled whenever someone logs in and is using the add-on.
Quote:If you came in after Quark and he was having problems, could it not be that those that wanted the information had not already gotten it from him.
That would be valid in most cases. However, as I mention above, I've been Master during some of our highest load login periods, and when someone logs in they do not already have the information, by default.
Quote:I doubt from what I saw of the GuildedDKP in use, that a single request from anyone would likely cause any noticeable problems for any master that was on a halfway decent computer. But if it does not use a good method to act as a traffic cop for outgoing data, then if several users opt to request data at the same time then there could be problems. Like when players start fidgeting around after the warders and before the main Onyxia attack while the party is starting to buff up and wait while a last few straglers get there.
Here's the thing -- and here, I have to admit being uncertain as I obviously don't interact with GuDKP as a client, ever: there shouldn't be any way for people to manually request that data, and if there is, we should immediately hack the addon and remove it. There's no reason whatsoever for anyone to manually request a DKP update anyway, because the numbers aren't going to change dynamically; Quark or I would have to exit the game and run GetDKP again in order to get new numbers, after which we'd automatically re-broadcast the updated data on login. Quark shouldn't be getting hit by any requests outside of those parameters, and if there's a way for a non-GetDKP user to make a request outside of logging in (or perhaps re-loading their UI), then it's definitely a Stupid Code Problem.
Quote:...From what I can see compared to Guilded that is the same types of communication signals and generally a lot quiter than all the other spam that is circulating on the Guilded channel with all the various mods that at times are sending a variety of messages out on an all to frequent basis.
Most of which was GPT, which even I decided to finally remove.
The reason for the QED was more this: my job is to troubleshoot these kind of things. When System A has X and Y, and System B has X, Y, and Z, and System B has the problem whereas System A does not... you exhaust all possibility of there being a problem with Z before wasting your time investigating whether System A is more capable of running X and Y than System B is, because 99 times out of 100 the problem is with Z.
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