Gagging without problems in zMUD

by Lendren

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Lendren2012-03-04 17:14:55
zMUD is fine for gagging a few lines here and there, even dozens, but if you try to gag something that happens every second, like harvesting spam, and then harvest for an hour at a time (and how else can you?) it makes it crash. Anyone know any way to avoid this?

Geez, Lendren, you're so dumb still using zMUD. Everyone moved to something else by now. Get with the century!

There, I said that part for you, so you don't have to. Now that that's out of the way, anyone at all have any ideas on how to help other than not using zMUD?
Xenthos2012-03-04 17:28:04
What kind of crash are you getting?

I don't have any problems gagging harvest-spam, I've sometimes had errors start popping after piloting in aetherspace and gagging a ton of spam that way, but that just gives a message, didn't actually crash the program on me.
Unknown2012-03-04 17:42:03
What gag command are you using? (Yes, there are a few.)
Lendren2012-03-04 18:08:13
Usually #gag and/or #gag -1 (have tried a few combinations). I haven't tried in a long time because I had problems with many-frequent-gags a while back, but when I had too many too quickly, I would start getting untrapped errors. I can get away with gags that don't fire constantly.
Xenthos2012-03-04 18:13:28
Huh, odd.

I don't have the same problem at all-- I'm running it on Vista in XP compatibility mode. The only thing I see is that it sometimes gets a little greedy and gags other nearby lines too.
Lendren2012-03-04 22:14:13
I'm giving it a try with just #gag and #gag -1 and so far I've been able to go almost 20 minutes without a crash. So there's some hope that maybe whatever used to cause them was the combination of all the gagging and something else I used to do but don't do anymore. Knock wood!
Lehki2012-03-04 22:38:21
I've also never had any issues when gagging a lot in zMUD, using just #gag.

Honestly don't really have a clue what the issue could be.
Lendren2012-03-04 23:59:45
Just got one, but a minor one that caused no problem. "Access violation at address 00000000. Read of address 00000000." As long as it's nothing but that, that's no problem, those usually go away and nothing results.
Xenthos2012-03-05 00:05:10
Lendren:

Just got one, but a minor one that caused no problem. "Access violation at address 00000000. Read of address 00000000." As long as it's nothing but that, that's no problem, those usually go away and nothing results.

Yeah, that's the one I (rarely) get after I've been aetherbashing as a pilot for a few hours (where I gag everything except ship chatter and damage / things actually happening).
Unknown2012-03-06 10:55:21
I wonder if #GAG is not only gagging, but also storing the gagged data.

Access violation could very well be a buffer overrun. Check to see if #GAG is actually putting the data into a buffer and if so, flush the buffer every 10 minutes or so.