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| Beaconizer is a different build of mapserver, which loads maps and generates .bcn files.
| | '''WARNING:''' Use of the beaconizer can break your maps. Proceed with care and backups! |
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| == Operating modes ==
| | To run the Beaconizer process you need the following folders inside bin/data |
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| | bin/datafonts |
| | geobin |
| | maps |
| | object library |
| | player library |
| | scenes |
| | server |
| | shaders |
| | sound |
| | specs |
| | texts |
| | texturelibrary |
| | tricks |
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| Beaconizer has to be started in one of the following modes:
| | Inside data/maps only the maps that need beaconizing or it will start making all maps |
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| * BeaconClient: the worker processes that run the calculations to construct beacon files
| | Important is to place on every Map that needs Beaconizing the Beacon Type ValidBeacon its inside the Library |
| * Master-BeaconServer: the coordinator for all the other processes
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| * Auto-BeaconServer: loads every map and rebuilds the beacons if the map crc does not match the bcn file
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| * Manual-BeaconServer
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| * Request-BeaconServer: processes requests for beaconization that mapservers send to master
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| Selecting one of these modes causes the mapserver to start as a beaconizer, and alters normal mapserver startup in the following ways:
| | Beacon Server itself offers a Menu you can open with M key, if you start a Manual Beacon Server you can use M and after that L to go to the Submenu for Maps. |
| * d_ prefixes in data files would normally cause the file to be ignored by mapserver; beaconizer does not do this
| | There you first need to Load the Maplist with 1. It will show you some Warnings about missing Maps as long as you dont have all Maps inside the Data/maps folder |
| * Popup error dialogs are suppressed
| | but this Warnings are ok . |
| * [[Piggs#FolderCache|FolderCache]] is set to filesystem-only mode, so piggs will not be read
| | After that you can select 9 and push enter after that you need to type yes and hit enter again to add all the maps from Data/maps to your beaconizer Queue. |
| * Shared memory is disabled, so it loads files directly from disk instead of sharing preloaded copies with other things running on this machine
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| * Server command processing is not done
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| * Animations are not loaded
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| * Container management and the usual dbserver client do not start
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| * The beaconizer client or server is started, according to the mode
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| Beaconizer can run in development or production mode. This is unrelated to all other forms of development or production mode in mapserver, and controlled exclusively by the -beaconproductionmode flag.
| | Hit Escape and after you are back at the main menu push 4 and escape again to start the process. |
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| BeaconServer listens on the first free port in the range port 48812 (0xbeac) to 48913, except for Master-BeaconServer which listens on 48813, and no other BeaconServer will listen on that port. All beaconservers accept the same [[Beaconizer-protocols#Commands.2C_client_to_server|network commands]].
| | ====Startcommand for the Beaconizer Masterserver==== |
| | {{ms|beaconizer.exe -beaconmasterserver -beacondatatoolsrootpath <Path to your Server Root Directory> -beaconrequestcachedir <Place where you want the cachedir>}} |
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| Launcher has special handling for launching Master-BeaconServer, BeaconClients, and Request-BeaconServer instances.
| | ====Startcommand for Worker Threads==== |
| | {{ms|beaconizer.exe" -beaconworkduringuseractivity -beaconclient 127.0.0.1}} |
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| Beaconizer will install itself as c:/beaconizer/BeaconServer.exe and c:/beaconizer/BeaconClient.exe. It will copy these executables to c:/beaconizer/beaconcopy.XX.XX.(YYYY-mm-dd).(HH-MM-SS)/BeaconServer.exe as it runs, and relaunch processes from those paths. | | ====Startcommand for Automatic Beaconizer==== |
| | {{ms|beaconizer.exe" -beaconautoserver 127.0.0.1 -beaconproductionmode -beaconrequestcachedir <Place where you want the cachedir same as you used for Master Server> -beacondatatoolsrootpath <Path to your Server Root Directory> -beaconworkduringuseractivity -beacononepassonly}} |
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| === Master server ===
| | If you want to start the Beaconizer as Manual Server the Command would be <br/> |
| | | {{ms|beaconizer.exe" -beaconserver 127.0.0.1 -beaconproductionmode -beaconrequestcachedir <Place where you want the cachedir same as you used for Master Server> -beacondatatoolsrootpath <Path to your Server Root Directory> -beaconworkduringuseractivity -beacononepassonly}} |
| The master server is responsible for handling requests from mapservers, and for coordinating other BeaconServer and BeaconClient instances.
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| ==== MapServer requests ====
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| Every MapServer connects to the Master-BeaconServer when it needs a map beaconizing. It gets the address of the Master-BeaconServer from the -beaconusemasterserver command-line argument, which launcher sets based on MasterBeaconServer in servers.cfg. It connects as a "Requester", using [[Beaconizer-protocols#BMSG_C2S_REQUESTER_CONNECT|BMSG_C2S_REQUESTER_CONNECT]]. It then uploads its own map data as a series of [[Beaconizer-protocols#BMSG_C2ST_REQUESTER_MAP_DATA_.22RequesterMapData.22|RequesterMapData]] messages.
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| The Master-BeaconServer creates a process node and file load request for the map data it receives, for its own worker threads. When all map data has been received, the file loader thread will write the map data to a {{ms|.beaconrequest}} file, which it uses to manage a queue of pending requests. When a Request-BeaconServer is available, the Master-BeaconServer will assign one of these requests to it and transmit the map data to the Request-BeaconServer as [[Beaconizer-protocols#BMSG_S2CT_MAP_DATA_.22MapData.22|MapData]] messages. When the Request-BeaconServer is finished, it sends a beacon file back to Master-BeaconServer as [[Beaconizer-protocols#BMSG_S2CT_BEACON_FILE_.22BeaconFile.22|BeaconFile]] messages. The Request-BeaconServer then becomes available to pick up more work, and the Master-BeaconServer sends the beacon file back to the MapServer as [[Beaconizer-protocols#BMSG_C2ST_BEACON_FILE_.22BeaconFile.22|BeaconFile]] messages.
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| ==== Coordinating workers ====
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| Every other BeaconClient and BeaconServer connects to the Master-BeaconServer. When a BeaconServer is processing a map, the Master-BeaconServer assigns some BeaconClients to it, sending each BeaconClient a [[Beaconizer-protocols#BMSG_S2CT_TRANSFER_TO_SERVER_.22TransferToServer.22|TransferToServer]] message, which causes the BeaconClient to disconnect from the Master-BeaconServer and instead connect to the BeaconServer it was directed to.
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| Every Request-BeaconServer waits for the Master-BeaconServer to send it maps to process.
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| An Auto-BeaconServer loads the list of maps that it finds locally, and treats this as a work queue: it loads each map in turn and waits for the Master-BeaconServer to send it clients to process them.
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| A Manual-BeaconServer does no work until instructed via the console menu.
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| ==== Master internals ====
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| The Master-BeaconServer starts two worker threads.
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| The file loader waits for load requests to arrive, reads the corresponding .beaconrequest file from the cache dir (checking that the file version and crc match), then marks the load request as complete.
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| The request processor queues all requests in the ${cache_dir}/pending on startup, then scans the process queue for work it can do. On each pass it will:
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| * Take up to three nodes in state WAITING_FOR_WRITE_TO_DISK and write their map data packet to ${cache_dir}/pending/${name}.pending
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| * For the first 50Mb of compressed map data in the queue, load the map data from the pending file if it is in state WAITING_FOR_MAP_DATA_FROM_DISK and move it to state WAITING_FOR_REQUEST_SERVER. For the rest of the map data in the queue, free it and park it in state WAITING_FOR_MAP_DATA_FROM_DISK. This caps the amount of data held in memory at 50Mb.
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| In production mode, the master server will connect to dbserver and send BEACON2DB_BEACONSERVER_STATUS messages roughly once a second, with the longest outstanding client request wait time.
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| In its main processing loop, the master server:
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| * processes all clients to assign them work and check pings
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| ** any connected client of type BCT_SERVER which is a Request server and does not currently have a process node assigned, will select the first process node in the queue in state WAITING_FOR_REQUEST_SERVER and assign it to this server. This sends BMSG_S2CT_MAP_DATA to that server.
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| * scans the process queue for completed work
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| ** any nodes without a requester are cancelled
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| ** any process node in state WAITING_FOR_LOAD_REQUEST which has completed loading (by the file loader thread) is checked for load success. If the file was loaded, then it is sent to the client and the state moves to WAITING_FOR_CLIENT_TO_RECEIVE_BEACON_FILE. Otherwise, it moves to state WAITING_TO_REQUEST_MAP_DATA_FROM_CLIENT
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| ** any process node in state WAITING_TO_REQUEST_MAP_DATA_FROM_CLIENT is checked to see if all map data has been received, and moved to state WAITING_FOR_WRITE_TO_DISK. If not all map data has been received, then the first five process nodes in this state will send BMSG_S2CT_REQUEST_CHUNK_RECEIVED to the client and move to state WAITING_FOR_MAP_DATA_FROM_CLIENT
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| ** process nodes in state WAITING_FOR_MAP_DATA_FROM_CLIENT count towards the five node limit if the request was sent less than three seconds ago
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| * assigns available clients to servers which need them
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| This gives us the following state machine for process nodes:
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| * Created in state WAITING_FOR_LOAD_REQUEST in response to BMSG_C2ST_REQUESTER_MAP_DATA
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| * File loader thread attempts to load the data
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| * If valid data is found, moves to state WAITING_FOR_CLIENT_TO_RECEIVE_BEACON_FILE. This is a terminal state; it stays here until the client is done.
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| * If no valid data is found, the main processing loop advances it to WAITING_TO_REQUEST_MAP_DATA_FROM_CLIENT
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| * When the master server has capacity to continue (5 at a time), it sends BMSG_S2CT_REQUEST_CHUNK_RECEIVED to the client and moves to state WAITING_FOR_MAP_DATA_FROM_CLIENT
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| * When a chunk of map data is received, moves to WAITING_TO_REQUEST_MAP_DATA_FROM_CLIENT (loop back up)
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| * When all map data is received, moves to WAITING_FOR_WRITE_TO_DISK
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| * When the processing thread has capacity (3 at a time), writes the map data to a pending file
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| * If too much data is pending, unloads some so that only 50Mb of map data is held in memory waiting for request servers, and queues it for reloading when there is capacity (state WAITING_FOR_MAP_DATA_FROM_DISK)
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| * When capacity is available, moves to WAITING_FOR_REQUEST_SERVER
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| * When a Request server is available, assigns the work to that server and sends BMSG_S2CT_MAP_DATA
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| * When the request server sends BMSG_C2ST_BEACON_FILE, moves the state to WAITING_FOR_CLIENT_TO_RECEIVE_BEACON_FILE and begins sending the file
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| == Command-line flags ==
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| {{CommandLineTable|
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| {{CLArg|-beaconclient <master name>|Start as BeaconClient. Set the master server name.}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconserver <master name>|Start as Manual-BeaconServer. Set the master server name.}} | |
| {{CLArg|-beaconautoserver <master name>|Start as Auto-BeaconServer. Set the master server name.}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconmasterserver|Start as Master-BeaconServer.}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconrequestserver <master name>|Start as Request-BeaconServer. Set the master server name.}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconclientsubserver <subserver name>|Set the subserver name for this client.}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconusemasterserver <master address>|Set the network address to connect to the master server.}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconrequestcachedir <cache dir>|Set the request cache directory. Default is c:/beaconizer/requestcache}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconproductionmode|Set the beaconizer into production mode. If this flag is not used then it will be in development mode.}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconallownovodex|}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconsymstore|Only used on a master server. Runs symstoreVS8.exe to add BeaconServer.exe, BeaconClient.exe, BeaconServer.pdb and BeaconClient.pdb to a symstore.}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconworkduringuseractivity|Allows a BeaconClient to work while the user of the machine is "active" (keyboard or mouse moved recently).}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconnonetstart|}}
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| {{CLArg|-beaconnoperforce|}}
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| {{CLArg|-beacondatatoolsrootpath <path>|Set the data/tools root path, where maps and data files will be loaded from. Default is c:/game. This is used by the Manual and Auto BeaconServers to load maps. Request-BeaconServer gets the maps sent by MapServer instead.}}
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WARNING: Use of the beaconizer can break your maps. Proceed with care and backups!
To run the Beaconizer process you need the following folders inside bin/data
bin/datafonts
geobin
maps
object library
player library
scenes
server
shaders
sound
specs
texts
texturelibrary
tricks
Inside data/maps only the maps that need beaconizing or it will start making all maps
Important is to place on every Map that needs Beaconizing the Beacon Type ValidBeacon its inside the Library
Beacon Server itself offers a Menu you can open with M key, if you start a Manual Beacon Server you can use M and after that L to go to the Submenu for Maps.
There you first need to Load the Maplist with 1. It will show you some Warnings about missing Maps as long as you dont have all Maps inside the Data/maps folder
but this Warnings are ok .
After that you can select 9 and push enter after that you need to type yes and hit enter again to add all the maps from Data/maps to your beaconizer Queue.
Hit Escape and after you are back at the main menu push 4 and escape again to start the process.
Startcommand for the Beaconizer Masterserver
beaconizer.exe -beaconmasterserver -beacondatatoolsrootpath <Path to your Server Root Directory> -beaconrequestcachedir <Place where you want the cachedir>
Startcommand for Worker Threads
beaconizer.exe" -beaconworkduringuseractivity -beaconclient 127.0.0.1
Startcommand for Automatic Beaconizer
beaconizer.exe" -beaconautoserver 127.0.0.1 -beaconproductionmode -beaconrequestcachedir <Place where you want the cachedir same as you used for Master Server> -beacondatatoolsrootpath <Path to your Server Root Directory> -beaconworkduringuseractivity -beacononepassonly
If you want to start the Beaconizer as Manual Server the Command would be
beaconizer.exe" -beaconserver 127.0.0.1 -beaconproductionmode -beaconrequestcachedir <Place where you want the cachedir same as you used for Master Server> -beacondatatoolsrootpath <Path to your Server Root Directory> -beaconworkduringuseractivity -beacononepassonly