Lag and census

Alanthus · Post by **Alanthus** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:02 pm

Just something to be aware of really, since I play on a high population PvP server I will no longer run census except the few times that I am crafting or scanning the AH for long enough. With "Honor" in the game the added lag from running a census is a killer and since it takes a good while to run, especially at prime time, I will avoid doing so. I'll try to still run census on off peak hours.

I don't mind dying much but getting frozen in a fight and dying for it always sux :/

I hope others don't have the same freezing going on as I do and can keep running census on peak hours, I'm posting here in case this is a general problem though?

Hal · Post by **Hal** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:35 pm

Regularly purging your data will keep the census virtually lagless.

Post by **Rollie** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:49 pm

Yeah, I have heard that having a very full saved variables file will indeed slow it down. I haven't seen it as I purge pretty regularly.

Alanthus · Post by **Alanthus** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:36 am

Hmmm, it starts to freeze pretty much right away actually, a prime time census adds 1800-1900 characters right away which may be part of the problem of course. I could purge after each census of course but that wouldn't leave much data to send in at the end of the day

Post by **Rollie** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:16 am

Not sure how attached you are to your data, but if you don't mind, you might just try to purge and try a census and see if it still freezes up your system.

Are you running lootlink or gatherer UI mods?

Alanthus · Post by **Alanthus** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:51 pm

I purge my data pretty regularly but as I said, running a census at prime time collects data pretty fast. I have started running gatherer lately but I had the freeze problem before that, I've stayed away from lootlink and similar mods since I get the feeling they generate quite a lot of overhead.

Post by **Rollie** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:56 pm

Hrm, I see. Well, run it when you can I guess! Any updates are definately appreciated =)

Post by **Rollie** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:15 pm

I'll have to keep an eye on this. This would be very annoying for sure. I'll start thinking of possible ways to break the data up to speed things up a bit.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:31 am

I'm also on Bleeding Hollow, though on the Hoard side, I do play Primetime during the weekend and haven't had any problems with running census every half-hour and PvPing... well outside the usual zerg vs zerg lag anyway.

Also not having any problems inside MC.

The only thing I don't like is not being able to look at my guild/raid tab when its running.

-Resolute

Post by **Rollie** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:38 am

Well, you'll be happy to know that the next version (coming within the next week!) will free that up and you will be able to do anything without the annoying auto-closing of windows and such while the census is running, including viewing your guild/raid tabs, quest panels, vendors, bank, etc etc etc. Just wish I had figured out this little trick sooner, hehe.