What is with this version of spring and hanging constanly?

[smoth]

I have been trying to test my game tonight and after so long it seems to be randomly hanging. I check the error log and it says something about hang detection. This is really frustrating.

[zwzsg]

I find the hang detection annoying as well.

According to Hoiju, you may change HangTimeout in springsettings.cfg

[FLOZi]

Probably related to:

http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=2186

?

Is this new with .6? I can't say I had regular problems with .5 wrt hanging

[Forboding Angel]

Smoth, set an exception for your antivirus runtime scan for the spring folder and the mods and maps folders. It will instantly behave like it's old self.

(This is a temporary fix of course)

[zerver]

So is it hanging for real, or just a fake hang detection? I already know it may incorrectly trigger during "/give all", and this will be fixed.

[Forboding Angel]

Personally zerver (and I can't speak with any amount of expertise) I think it's fake hang detections.

Apparently for me (and a lot of others) AV scanning at runtime is causing enough of a slowdown for it to matter to spring.

The result was that eventually spring WOULD load, but it would take literally several minutes to get ingame.

Like I said before, setting exceptions in AV is at best a workaround solution. This needs to be addressed in the engine pronto.

[FLOZi]

I think some people are experiencing mid-game hangs Forb. I only got the AV related issues on the spring.exe menu.

[Forboding Angel]

Oh, I didn't know that. Sorry, in that case, ignore me

[hoijui]

if we have to read a lot of stuff from the disc, and your AV checks all these reads, and thus makes them slow, how should we fix this in the engine?
or am i getting it wrong?

[zwzsg]

Forb, we don't all use the same brand of antivirus as you.

[AF]

Isn't the auto hang set to 10 seconds now? If it's such an issue can't we have an off switch?

[smoth]

I have not replied because I have not gotten back to setting a reproducible test to give some idea what is triggering it.

[Forboding Angel]

Forb, we don't all use the same brand of antivirus as you.

I understand that Z, but pretty much all AV programs carry the same act of scanning at runtime on open and scanning when something is written to disk.

[yuritch]

Some like to scan archives though, and spring data files are just that. So probably excluding only mods and maps directories should do.

I run a DrWeb antivirus btw, never had spring hang problems with it (it's set to scan archives by default, and I don't have spring dir in exclude list either, so there should be some differences between AV brands after all...)