Re: [simspark-devel] timer and rules branches merged with HEAD

[Joschka B. <jbo...@un...>]

Hi Hedayat,

I'll CC this to the devel list, just to have it documented.

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 19:00 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
> Hi again,
> Fortunately, I found my problem too! 

I'm glad you did :-)

> The problem is that there are two different files with the same name:
> app/monitorspark/soccersim.rb and app/simspark/soccersim.rb! My
> monitor crashed because it was using soccersim.rb of simspark.
> app/monitorspark/soccersim.rb must be renamed to something else such
> as soccersimmon.rb because both of these files should be installed.
> Currently, one of these will be overwritten with the other one in the
> installation (app/simspark/soccersim.rb will be written over
> app/monitorspark/soccersim.rb in the installation directory
> (e.g. /usr/local/share/rcssserver3d/) which will cause a crash for
> monitorspark. 
> (Also, there are two copies of bindings.rb file which are the same.
> One of them should be removed I think (or may be renamed or ....!))
> 
It's interesting that so far, nobody else had problems with this.
Anyways, thanks a lot, we should definitely rename the files then.

> And about the results:
> I've not tested much, but I get the same results using agentspark in
> both simspark and monitorspark:
> With 4 agents, the simulation runs smoothly, but after running the 5th
> agent, the simulation becomes unstable, some agents jump high in the
> air and simulation hangs completely. 

I get similar results on my laptop. Currently, I can only run 4 agents
reliably on my laptop (with the 0.5.6-preview). Anybody tried with
connecting agents over the network? Does it make a difference?

Also, does anybody have a machine close to the specs in Atlanta to test?
My laptop is too weak to be used as a reference (only for a lower
baseline maybe).

> Jan Murray <mu...@un...> wrote on 06/15/2007 05:32:46 PM: 
> > Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: 
> > > Hi, 
> > > Sorry, the monitorspark crashes for me for other reasons too.
> > > Currently, in the latest spark.rb, this line is missing for
> > > monitorspark: 
> > >   simulationServer.setMultiThreads(false); 
> > > 
> > > so it is running in multi thread mode which causes a crash on my
> > > computer. when I add this line, monitorspark doesn't crash for
> > > this reason. (It still has the other problem I mentioned in my
> > > previous mail.) 
> > 
> > Woo Hoo, that did it for me. :-D 
> > 
> > monitorspark is now running for me.  I just overlooked that it was
> > the *logplayer* that was set to singlethread mode. 
> > 
> > I can drop the ball and move the agent and start the game now. But
> > in the external monitor most of the time only the agent's forearms
> > are moved. Sometimes the body follows a little later, sometimes it
> > doesn't. But in the internal monitor this is rendered correctly. 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> >  Jan