Within 10 minutes of the launch, there were more than 50 players on the server, and the number continues to grow. By the time the www.biquge.info of Pen Fun Pavilion reaches around half past two, the number of players will exceed 120.

"Something is wrong. ”

The first person to notice the abnormal situation was Liu Kewei, who suddenly stopped the operation, covered his mouth with his right fist, and frowned not knowing what he was thinking.

"What's wrong?" Duan Shanshan heard his words, turned his head and asked blankly, "Everything seems to be quite normal on my side." ”

"Don't you think that when you switch maps, the speed of loading scenes is obviously slowed down?" Liu Kewei shook his head, his face full of doubts, "When we measured it ourselves, the average speed of loading a new map was about three to five seconds, and now every time we enter the scene, it will take at least eight or even twelve seconds." ”

Duan Shanshan was stunned, as a veteran player of online games, he had experienced network delay too many times, and he was almost a little accustomed to the so-called "lag" or "card" phenomenon in online games. Whether it is the king of kings or the demon king of the sixth day, frequent delays often occur, and when you are most stuck, you can type a sentence in the chat channel, and it will not even be displayed after a minute or two.

"The number of players logging into the server is a lot more than when we tested it behind closed doors, isn't it normal to be a little slower? It takes three to five seconds, or eight to twelve seconds, to load a scene, what difference can it make, I feel okay, players should be able to understand and accept it. ”

Liu Kewei stubbornly shook his head and said: "This is not scientific, the maximum number of people in the server we designed is more than 3,000 people, and Che'er said that there is no problem with the program." It is said that with a server of 3,000 people, a few people online and more than 100 people online, there should not be such an obvious difference in transmission speed!"

"It's only a few seconds of difference, is this name obvious?" Duan Shanshan replied casually without a heart.

"Fuck off, this is a very serious question, brother is not joking with you!" Liu Kewei put down his face and snorted.

Duan Shanshan was stunned again, in the final analysis, it was because the two of them were too familiar, and they were used to playing in private, and when this emotion was brought into the work, they would occasionally be a little unable to keep up with the rhythm.

When one side wants to discuss the issue seriously, the other side is still joking to adjust the atmosphere, so they gag as usual...... Realizing that it has been almost a year now, it is rare for the two of them to have similar embarrassments a few times, and this is probably the case.

Anyway, it's not the first time he's seen Liu Kewei's "changing face", and he understands that this guy doesn't actually mean to show his face to himself, but is really anxious......

Although Duan Shanshan is also a bit teasing, he can still distinguish priorities. So he pouted and shrugged, went back to his game flow, and stopped talking.

At three o'clock in five minutes, the number of people logging in to the server reached one hundred and fifty, and the signs of network delay were more obvious, this time, even Duan Shanshan and Yuan Bin felt that there was indeed an abnormality, and some people in the public channel in the game also complained from time to time.

"Why are you so stuck?

It's like a complaint from the average player.

"The people from the operation and maintenance department (the full name is the operation and technical support department) of Tienxiti should not be holding the server under the hair, right?"

The person who can directly call out the three words "operation and maintenance department" is absolutely impossible to be a layman, it must be an insider, and the person who said this sentence is obviously a tester of which operating company. Of course, it is impossible for the people in the operation and maintenance department to really show off to the extent of taking the game server to secretly play the film, this sentence must be a sarcastic ridicule.

At this time, Liu Kewei was so anxious that he couldn't sit still, so he couldn't help but stand up abruptly and walked around the office quickly.

"187 Tell me, is it possible that there is a problem in some aspect of the code, which is causing a serious delay?"

I don't know if it's because of their profession, but most programmers have a calm personality and don't talk much. Although the average otaku is usually relatively low-key in an unfamiliar environment, they habitually remain silent, but they have a tendency to change their talk when they get along with people who are familiar with each other. However, like Che Guanglong and Yuan Bin, the two threesomes are the main ones, even in front of very familiar colleagues or friends, they usually answer two sentences at most when they ask three sentences, and they take the route of conciseness.

So he just shook his head slightly and said, "No, it's almost impossible for this to happen. ”

"What's going on with such a slow internet connection?"

Liu Kewei is a little crazy, this game carries too many people's expectations and dreams, and such an abnormality appeared on the first day of the closed beta, which doesn't look like a good sign no matter how you look at it.

"It should ...... It's the server's problem. After pondering for a while, Yuan Bin gave a conclusion.

"Server problems?What are server problems?What can problems happen to servers?" Duan Shanshan asked curiously, usually he has less interaction with the program at work, and he doesn't know much about things involving technical aspects.

"One possibility that is easier to understand is that you are using poor quality server equipment. Yuan Bin sighed, if this question is to be made clear, it is impossible not to go into a long speech, "In essence, the server is also a computer, of course, the threshold will be much higher than our ordinary personal computers." Therefore, the performance of CPU, memory, motherboard, and hard disk will affect the overall performance of the server. If you use a server with ridiculously poor performance, it may cause network latency. ”

Liu Kewei shook his head and denied this possibility: "Tienxiti is also a subsidiary of Naxon, although the operating performance is not very good, but the equipment investment will definitely not be so picky." So the situation you're talking about, it should be unlikely to happen. ”

Duan Shanshan seemed to be interested, rubbed his nose, and his expression became serious: "What you just said is a possibility that is easier to understand, so the implication is that there is at least one possibility that is not easy to understand, right?"

Yuan Bin smiled bitterly, simply stopped the operation in his hand, and turned around in the direction of Liu Kewei and Duan Shanshan. This question is not something that can be stopped in a few words, in order to concentrate on explaining the problem to the two planners, he simply put aside the test game in advance.

"First, let's understand the definition of a server. What is a server? When we talk about online games alone, the word server has two very different meanings. The first one refers to the hardware device that stores the game server-side program code, which is the kind of definition we just mentioned, and you can all understand this, right? In order to distinguish it from the other definition of the server, we call this definition of the server 'physical server'. ”

Seeing that Liu Kewei and Duan Shanshan expressed their understanding, Yuan Bin picked up the paper cup on his table, took a sip of water to moisten his throat, and continued to speak.

"Another definition is a complete 'world' in the game, for example, in the future, our game will open 2 servers, 3 servers and 4 servers, or you can also change some nice names, such as World of Warcraft's Silver Hand, Valley of Kings, Ronin...... No matter what you call it, it actually means server. The server here, in the words that your copywriter likes, refers to the 'parallel worlds' in the game. It is different from the previous definition called 'physical service' and can be called 'logical service'. ”

Unlike Duan Shanshan, who is half a layman, Liu Kewei has long known and understood these concepts, but he has not been systematically sorted out, and he only knows the difference between the two definitions of server, but he does not have such a clear and unambiguous concept as "physical service" and "logical service". Therefore, both of them listened very attentively, and neither of them interjected to interrupt Yuan Bin's narration.

"The data of a logical server can be stored separately on several different physical servers, or dozens of logical servers can be placed in a physical server. Generally speaking, large terminal games with a high upper limit of online users at the same time tend to occupy more server resources, so most of the configuration relationships are used, while web games with a small upper limit of online users bring little pressure to the hardware system, and the latter configuration is used. ”

Speaking of which, Yuan Bin explained very clearly and concretely, not to mention Liu Kewei, even Duan Shanshan's face showed an expression of sudden realization: "I understand, our "Six Tribulations" is designed in the direction of large-scale terminal games, so we should use several physical suits to form a logical suit configuration." If "Six Tribulations" is treated as a page game by the Tienxiti operation and maintenance department, and is stuffed into a physical suit with dozens of logic suits, this kind of serious delay may occur?"

Yuan Bin smiled, nodded and did not speak. Liu Kewei snorted coldly with a frosty mask: "What else is possible? I estimate that there is a chance that this is the actual situation, otherwise the game with a maximum of 3,000 people is designed, how can it be stuck like this with only 150 people entering the game?"

Duan Shanshan touched his chin and smacked his tongue: "Judging from the attitude of that Kan Yu Kan supervisor to cooperate with our work, Tienxiti is still quite friendly to us, how could he deliberately stumble us on the server? Could it be that he deliberately made that kind of gesture in order to deliberately paralyze us? But I think judging from the contact in the past two days, he is not such a scheming bad guy!"

"Where can the good guys and the bad guys be so easy to distinguish?" Liu Kewei once again scoffed at Duan Shanshan's simple heart, "Only a single-celled creature like you will bring the actual thoughts in your heart to the surface, this world is complicated, there are more people who are in front of each other and one behind their backs, you don't want to be strange and strange!"