Dawn of Light on Linux

[Merec]

Hi,

I started a test - and it works....
Now I started DOL on my Linux mashine using Mono, everything seems to work. And the basic start, compiled from the server, took about 5 seconds (on windows it took about 20).

Are there interests on running DOL with Linux?
If yes, I will create some howtos and suggest some things that have to be editied in the Server.

bye Merec

[Graveen]

I see it definitively as a solution to reduce hosting cost.

Yes it is interesting to run it on Mono. You compiled with monodevelop or it is the binary pasted on linux ?

The log4net is ported under mono ?


Yes, it is interesting if you state about 'DoL under linux'

[Merec]

Temporary I just pasted the binary on linux and using mono to start it.

Log4net is one of that things that needs to be edited, maybe a new Project called "DOLServerMono" which is not using the colored console.
The next thing is to compile the hole server with linux.

Monodevelop it not one of my favourite IDE, VS08 is a much better there.

I'll have a look, I'm working on....

bye

[Graveen]

I agree, it can become a complete solution on linux.

Iirc it compiled with mono and w/o log4net but it is very very very slow

[Dunnerholl]

i had always freezes about 1 year ago because monos garbage colelctor wasnt working too good

[elcholachica]

Hi, sorry about the necropost but this post is on the first page so I though it isn't too old, I'm really really interested in running DoL at Linux, the hosting cost is so different, I have some questions:

Could it run with Wine? How is the DataBase being loaded here at Linux? (I mean if there is any bugs or something else).

Thanks

[Graveen]

1) No, you can't. But you can with mono

2) mysql, like windows. But there are some issues on table name, they should be in lowercase

[Dunnerholl]

1) No, you can't. But you can with mono

2) mysql, like windows. But there are some issues on table name, they should be in lowercase

mysql server can be configured to ignore case as i recall.

anyway i had always heavy problems running it on linux when a few clients were connected....freeze freeze freeze

[Graveen]

yes you can. But the linux default is case sensitive, while windows is not.

[elcholachica]

Yeh... on Windows "FiLe" is the same as "file", in linux they are so different things.

[masterfreek64]

you can also run the .NET 2.0 SDK under WINE and it is said to work like a charm

[alex_speed]

It runs fine on Mono. The only problem is that every mysql dumps were created on windows so you have table name account instead of Account, which is not the same on linux, sure you can disable MySQL case sensitiveness, but only if you're running dol database, you don't know the behaviour of other software using mysql.

As for WINE, we should make a performance benchmark to see the overhead of this solution.

[Graveen]

Yes Alex, and i notice you changed them in your pkey changes. Thx !

[noyankiziltan]

heya,
can someone telll me what to do and if I am able to do host a dol server?

Got a Sparc Solaris 8 machine which I have access to, I am not a super user, admin or etc.. just have regular user priviliges, I use putty to connect. Do you think I can run dol on that server, and how?

[Graveen]

i don't heard mono ported to a sparc arch, but i don't really got an eye on the project, perhaps it compiles ?