Thread: RuneSource 317

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Summary
Well, many people including myself have attempted to make decent/stable server bases from scratch for general use, but nobody has really adopted our server bases due to their complexity. I hope to solve this problem with RuneSource, by making a stable, efficient server base that mimics the original winterLove source. It is entirely single-threaded, using asynchronous IO and strict cycle-based execution. Coincidentally, due to its simplicity, RuneSource seems to be the most high-performance RuneScape private server to date - see the performance demonstration below.

Note:
Seriously, please leech this server. I really want people to use it. Make your own project based on RuneSource, name it something different, add some features, use/release it and give yourself some credit.

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It's a work in progress, and I can't guarantee that I'll finish it, but it's pretty far along already. To be honest, I only develop it while I'm bored and have nothing better to do. It's licensed via GPLv3, which means you can pretty much do whatever you want with it - just use it as you wish and release the source in whole whenever you decide to release a derivative of RuneSource. I'm in the middle of finishing up player updating, but you can log in. It's not very playable right now, at all, heh. All of the logic will be implemented in Player.java (there's even a process() method!), as Client.java is used for handling IO.

I'm really hoping some people will adopt and use this server when it's finished.

Screenshots
More will be added as the server progresses.



Performance Demonstration:
Since packet handling and the main looping and packet building/sending of player updating is complete, I felt that it would be okay to run a reasonably accurate performance test. I ran a test with 1,000 bot clients and the server performs far better than I had ever hoped for. All of the bots were spamming chat packets, and the average cycle rate was ~50ms (about 8% maximum server load) for a full cycle (networking, packet handling, processing, updating). I couldn't run a test with any more than 1,000 players due to maximum number of open sockets on my computer, but I'll run a 2,000 player test on another server-type computer soon.

These are the profiling results for 1,000 players:
~10% CPU usage and ~10MB RAM usage.


Update
The same test was run on a Linode VPS with 1,000 bot players, and the server took 8-10ms (about 1.5% maximum server load) to perform a full cycle. Player updating performance has also been dramatically improved by switching out the old LinkedList with a raw array (iteration is much faster). I've yet to run tests on this newer system, but I will get to it shortly. Unfortunately, tests cannot be run with 2,000 bots as the SYI bot client crashes before we can get 2,000 users on the server.

Another Update
I made a more efficient bot program (way better than SYI) that will connect 2,000 bots (emualtes login) and spam packets to any 317 server. RuneSource processed 2,000 simulated players at about ~35ms per cycle, which is about 6% server load on a Linode VPS. This sets a new bar for RuneScape private servers. I have high hopes for RuneSource.

Developers

• blakeman8192

Special Thanks (in no specific order)

• Graham
• Taharok
• wL
• Daiki