Every single day, SoccerProject-managers experience 5 black holes during the 24 hours a day counts. During the day 4 minor simulations keep the addicts away for 15-25 minutes, if nothing goes wrong accidentally. But overnight (to us, Europeans) the server has to perform much more than on a basic simulation, which only takes friendly (cup)games and training sessions. During the week it has to face loads and loads of league games, calculation of rankings, automatically handled transfers and training sessions. During the weekend the workload is way less, and when the Cup has passed some rounds, every round there are less games to be simulated.
To be honest, we simply can’t complain anymore about simulations. There are hardly no problems anymore (a problem can always occur of course), and the length is very acceptable. The situation has evolved enormously in the positive way, something which earns a big applause to developer Sjarel!
To get a better view on those simulations overnight, I’ve kept all my emails I received from my league games. When you receive these emails the site isn’t accessible for somewhat 5 minutes, but that doesn’t make such difference. I’ve put all data into a graph…
(The vertical ax presents the time from 4 AM until I received the mail in my mailbox)
(The horizontal ax of course presents the matches)
There are some conclusions you can make, but this graph of course doesn’t tell it all.
- The average length of a simulation in the end is somewhat 45 minutes longer than one at the beginning of a season.
- The difference between the shortest (day 1) and longest (day 30) simulation is 88 minutes.
- Although there is a clear growing trend, not every simulation is longer than the earlier one.
- During the season the data that the site has to carry from the earlier days makes the simulations longer, but there are other factors that influence the length (server speed, number of transfers that have to be performed, …).
- Before 7 AM, you should be able to check your score every day.
- We don’t really have to mind about the simulations, everything’s running smoothly!
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