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Delete MP contacts with timeout?

Postby Manus » Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:55 am

Is there a way to automatically delete old, no longer updated multiplayer contacts from /ai/models/ ?

Background:
I work on a FG to DIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation) Server which transfers contacts from FG to DIS and back. A DIS scenario contains about 100 contacts (Air, Land and Sea) All are transfered to FG as multiplayer contacts.

Currently contacts which are no longer be send by a player are staying in the property tree till reload of FG. I a DIS environment this behavior is cause some problems because all contacts are staying in the tree, including missiles bombs and so on.

So, a way to delete these contacts would be nice.
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Re: Delete MP contacts with timeout?

Postby wkitty42 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:08 pm

this is normal and how the AI system works... you need to check/set the "valid" property true or false when the contacts are ""live"" or not... if you're reading them for other work (eg: in a script) and the "valid" property is false then just skip to the next one...

these records are kept around to prevent memory fragmentation, AFAICT... once allocated, the record is retained and used over and over... sometimes, when i leave my fg running for days, i see AI property records with tens of uses as different craft/callsigns over that time period... count the number of "type" properties each model has and you can tell how many times that record has been reused over the time period the AI manager has been running ;)
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