Re: [Utbot-devel] Javabots (fwd)

[Ari A. L. <lam...@cc...>]

I replied to Andrew off the list yesterday.  I'm forwarding my reply to
the list so that it can be stored in the utbot-devel archives.

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Ari Lamstein
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lamstein

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Ari A. Lamstein wrote:

>Hey Andrew,
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>It turns out that the error was incidental to Javabots, and not caused by
>it.  The machine I was running on had very little memory.  While it was
>slow with UT in general, also running Javabots caused too many page
>faults, all the virtual memory disappeared, and eventually everything
>crashed.  Moving to a newer computer seems to have solved the problem.
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>Thanks for the quick response though.  As we start getting our hands dirty
>with the code, we may need to make use of the list again.  It's great to
>have such quick access to the developer.
>
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>Ari Lamstein
>http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lamstein
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>On Tue, 27 May 2003, Andrew n marshall wrote:
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>>Can you give us an example/stack trace of the crashing you are talking
>>about.  To my knowledge, the system has been fairly stable, and I never
>>had significant problems when I wrote it forever ago.
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>>That said, your other alternative of writing straight to GameBots is not
>>difficult.  As long as you get the line endings correct, the protocol is
>>very straight forward.
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>>Anm
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>>Ari A. Lamstein wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'm trying to gather information about Gamebots and Javabots.  I'm working
>>>on an AI project at Georgia Tech and we're looking to use the UT engine to
>>>create virtual worlds for our agents to populate.
>>>
>>>It seems that Gamebots has been used by several people outside of USC, and
>>>we are interested in using it.  The professor who I'm working for has
>>>created a reactive programming language which targets Java; it seems like
>>>Javabots was created to facilitate hooking up systems like ours to
>>>Gamebots (which is turn was created to facilitate hooking up systems like
>>>ours to UT).
>>>
>>>But we've have had some trouble using the Javabots API (it keeps on
>>>crashing), and we haven't found any robust bots on the web that use it.
>>>We're wondering whether we should use this software or have our program
>>>connect up with Gamebots directly.
>>>
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>>>Ari Lamstein
>>>http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lamstein
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