Please Double check your orders for all games!

[Brekk]

Please double-check your orders for all games. The server disk space dropped to a critically low level, so there is a possibility that some orders did not save properly. Load the game and verify your orders are present. If they are, you are good to go. If you need a pause because orders have disappeared, please send me an email. Thank you.

Brek/John

[Lord Thanatos]

MMy Orders are missing

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ok my orders are present

[VballMichael]

MMy Orders are missing

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ok my orders are present

lol

[unclemike]

Unusual problem occurred for the Alamaze server. Its 100 GB disk drive ran out of free space all the way down to 0 yesterday. This caused some hectic problems with same games being processed but not others and some players orders weren't being fully saved, etc. 

So, I tried to clean up the server and reset all games to run on Tues Sept 23 at 11:20pm CDT, if not earlier if everyone clicks on the Ready button again. I cleared ready flags for all games so players will have to click on the Ready button again AFTER verifying that your orders for the upcoming turn are saved properly (click on Load Orders which retrieves from the server and double check them). Then click on the ready button or wait until Tues for the turn to run. Need to give players time to review their upcoming orders...

The reason why the server filled up is that since Alamaze became free of charge, there are a ton of games now running compared to previously. The automated backup system runs everyday at noon to perform a backup and those compressed files combine to nearly 600 MB. So, in a day, that's half a GB on a 100 GB server. That won't take long to fill up the server. The automated system saves the last 3 months worth of backups, so that's around 45-50 GB right there. Then the archive folder which saves all previous games were updated each time which further filled the disk space.

Brek will need to manually monitor the situation from now on until the new system/server will take over.

[davekuyk]

Thanks for getting on top of this so quickly John and Mike! We appreciate it.

Word of warning - some of my orders were saved and some were not - please load orders and confirm they are there before hitting ready!

[JohnnyUtah]

Thanks @unclemike!

[Lord Thanatos]

Game 5989

This game has everyone with a green checkmark EXCEPT a player holding for others. Perhaps you could manually set ready!

[Pine Needle]

Game 5989

This game has everyone with a green checkmark EXCEPT a player holding for others. Perhaps you could manually set ready!

Whew- I thought he was talking about me

[Wynand]

Maybe it’s just random, but none of my games have run since the server reset…usually one or two people not clicking ready. Anyone else noticing that to?

[JohnnyUtah]

5984 just ran, first one for me since the reset.