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Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3190] INL confine wobbling



On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 11:21:52PM -0400, Dave Ahn wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 08:14:47PM -0700, Tom Holub wrote:
> > On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:44:58PM -0400, Dave Ahn wrote:
> > > In the processing adding continous scoring support, I noticed why we're
> > > getting the strange wobbling effect under INL confinement.  The INL robot
> > > runs its maintenance 5 times a second whereas the server updates at 10 times
> > > a second.  This differential could also change game outcome in extreme
> > > circumstances such as when winning condition is met briefly between the
> > > INL robot maintenance check.  I think that this "bug" can be ignored for
> > > all practical purposes, though.  Can anyone think of any compelling reasons
> > > for/against upping the INL maintenance check to 10 times per second?
> > 
> > How expensive is it?
> 
> Not very.  The INL maintenance check isn't very efficient but does far less
> work than, say, what ntserv does every update.

So let's fix it.
 -Tom