this technically involves non-breaking API changes which should happen on a patch release, but I can't be bothered with the dust cleanup, so we'll just blow it away now. It doesn't hurt anyone anyway.
This was the cause of a bug with regeneration which caused players taking fatal damage under regeneration not to die correctly. On the server side they would die and immediately regenerate some health, which would cause the next attribute sync to not report the health drop to zero, which made the client unaware that it was dead.
Perhaps attributes should be forcibly synced in some circumstances, but nonetheless regeneration shouldn't apply post-death.
This is an incremental improvement over 4a6841a5a4. This change works better because it also reduces disk spam of crashdumps.
This will now sleep if the server uptime was less than 120 seconds before crashing. If unattended, this will clamp down on automated crashdump spam. If attended, the user can simply press CTRL+C to abort the process and skip the delay.
this process of fast-serialization, fast-deserialize, network-serialize is an order of magnitude slower than just doing the network encode directly on the main thread, and also copies more useless data.
For the main thread, the figures were something like 3x more expensive, and then an extra 7x for deserialization on the worker thread. This is a ridiculously large overhead.
this is perfectly fine to use, and preferable to getting a cyclic ref to the scheduler. TaskScheduler->cancelTask() does pretty much the exact same thing, and the scheduler internals are designed to deal with this anyway.
this should produce some reduction in spam at the source.
This could also be used to control the rate at which constantly-crashing servers restart to stop them spamming the disk as well, but the main concern here is eliminating crash archive involuntary DDoS by crashy servers.
This can happen when a light source is removed and later encountering another light source to fill the gap. A higher light level may get set and then not propagated. This bug is difficult to explain, but fairly easy to reproduce.
