Theorical question on gameobjects unique Ids
by Guimo · in Torque Game Engine · 02/26/2008 (3:30 pm) · 2 replies
Hi all,
I was wondering how does the enumeration of objects work in Torque. This may be more a theorethical question so please just hold on.
Consider a dedicated game server runing for days and days and days on a extremely stable server. Players will enter and exit, connections will be created, players will be spawned, etc etc.
Each time an object is created this object gets a unique id so it can be identified. This id is in fact a S32 number (correct me on this please) which will increase and increase. As we also know, a S32 is defined as a (signed) int, so an S32 will only hold about 2 million values before turning into a negative number.
Does anybody knows what will happen in that moment? Will the server continue running without problems? I guess it will do because the value will still be unique but I wonder if everything will run smoothly.
On a more theorethical question, if the server does continue working fine past the 2 million values... what will happen when it reaches the 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) value and increasses again? Will it crash on existing objects? Is there any way to monitor the highest value so I can schedule a server restart?
I know this questions are only theorical because its most probable that the server will be required to restart before anything happens but I just wanted to make sure.
Luck!
Guimo
I was wondering how does the enumeration of objects work in Torque. This may be more a theorethical question so please just hold on.
Consider a dedicated game server runing for days and days and days on a extremely stable server. Players will enter and exit, connections will be created, players will be spawned, etc etc.
Each time an object is created this object gets a unique id so it can be identified. This id is in fact a S32 number (correct me on this please) which will increase and increase. As we also know, a S32 is defined as a (signed) int, so an S32 will only hold about 2 million values before turning into a negative number.
Does anybody knows what will happen in that moment? Will the server continue running without problems? I guess it will do because the value will still be unique but I wonder if everything will run smoothly.
On a more theorethical question, if the server does continue working fine past the 2 million values... what will happen when it reaches the 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) value and increasses again? Will it crash on existing objects? Is there any way to monitor the highest value so I can schedule a server restart?
I know this questions are only theorical because its most probable that the server will be required to restart before anything happens but I just wanted to make sure.
Luck!
Guimo
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ps,
an S32 can represent numbers way larger than two million: 2^31 / one million