for those interested:
starting the policy server with -nogui does the trick...

Thanks for the quick reply.

Well.
I just couldn't imagine that your policy server is restricted to Windows systems (respectively GUI systems) since the SFS isn't and I don't see the necessity.
That means we have to look for alternatives?

I would think that a lot of SFS users currently live with ...

We also experience the problem, that the client "wastes" 3 seconds waiting for the policy file on port 843 (validated with the Wireshark tool).
When we tried running your policy server on our debian system we experienced the following problems:

On startup
Exception in thread "main" java.awt ...

We noticed that the Smartfox Server for our (action) game seems to halt every now and then for 2-5 seconds causing ugly delays for all players.
By turning on garbage collector logging we found out that these lags occur when a full garbage collection is done, mostly dealing with unloading about 1000 ...

Just wanna mention: You can test the game now without creating an account.
Simply

-go to http://www.jumpjupiter.com
-click the big button in the middle ("Jetzt kostenlos spielen")
-click the yellow button ("Probe-Level jetzt spielen")

Does not really have to do with the preceding post, but the topic matches nicely...

I would like to filter URLs so I added "http", ".com" and some others as bad words. Unfortunately the ones starting with a "." do not seem to work.

Is there workaround?

Any insights this?
We also see lots of "Unexpected / Malformed input: java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1":

INFO | jvm 1 | 2010/01/15 10:48:19 | 581 WARN [selector] SFSLog4JLogger.run (32): SFS: Unexpected / Malformed input: java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input ...

Lapo wrote:I have checked the logs you have sent in the PM and I didn't see anything interesting.

Yes, exactly that is the problem
People are just being kicked...
We probably need to set up our own anti-flooding mechanism then.
Anyway, if we find out something, we'll keep you updated.

Nothing easier than that:
1. Go to http://www.jumpjupiter.com
2. Click on "Jetzt spielen"
3. Click on "Probe-Level jetzt spielen"
(You might as well register and check out the complete game but to test the chat filter a guest account is sufficient.)

Unfortunately the problem is difficult to ...

We experience similar problems: Users being warned and kicked for flooding while chatting normally. Unfortunately this is hard to reproduce.

Could this be caused by configuration details, for example the Warnings=false in the BadWordsFilter with an active AntiFlood filter?

<AntiFlood active="true ...

okay, that's at least one good reason.
Simply using your script did not work on the first attempt, but I'll try to get it running on the weekend.
I saw some threads handling the topic. In case I don't get the problems solved I'll post there.
Thanks for your answers, Lapo.

Since our script does some more stuff it won't be just "simply".
That's why I want to find out if it's worth it - what are the advantages? Or is it the same in the end?

If you run the server as a service everything gets logged.
That's the recommended mode for running the server in a production environment.
okay, and when not running as a service? Stacktraces get swallowed?

We currently have our own start script, I think because we had problems with the default ...

well, isn't this rather problematic?
I just experienced the problem that I saw an exception on the console but did not find it in the log.
Is some information written only to the console? :shock:

I don't know if this might cause problems but I am messing around with the SFS loggers a bit in order ...

Thanks, Lapo! :D

DIPE basically consists of a physics engine running on the server plus one in every client with the server physics correcting the clients continuously.
To make this run smoothly and really real-time it takes a lot more, but I don't want to dive too deep into the details ...