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

[Jan M. <mu...@un...>]

Joschka Boedecker wrote:
> 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 :-)

Dito. ;-)

> 
>> 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.

IIRC the local copy of a file will be tried first. If it does not exist, 
the simulator tries the installed copy. So, if you start simspark and 
monitorspark from their source directories, the different versions of 
soccersim.rb should not interfere.

>> 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 can still connect 6 soccerbots locally. With the 7th the simulation 
breaks down, although it still accepts connections.

> 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).

Same here. My TP has a 2GHz processor and only 512MB. Perhaps I can 
access a 3GHz/1GB machine on Monday.


Jan