Force-load areas with mesecon usage

This is a major speedup for large mesecon machines / structures.
Force-loaded areas are stored in a file to be persistent over server
reboots. By default, areas are unloaded after 10 minutes (600s) without
usage, this can be customized with the mesecon.forceload_timeout
setting. Please turn max_forceloaded_blocks up for better performance.
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Jeija
2016-02-19 12:11:38 +01:00
parent f099b43e11
commit cfd4f7c287
3 changed files with 116 additions and 39 deletions

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@ -94,25 +94,8 @@ end
-- Store and read the ActionQueue to / from a file
-- so that upcoming actions are remembered when the game
-- is restarted
local wpath = minetest.get_worldpath()
local function file2table(filename)
local f = io.open(filename, "r")
if f==nil then return {} end
local t = f:read("*all")
f:close()
if t=="" or t==nil then return {} end
return minetest.deserialize(t)
end
local function table2file(filename, table)
local f = io.open(filename, "w")
f:write(minetest.serialize(table))
f:close()
end
mesecon.queue.actions = file2table(wpath.."/mesecon_actionqueue")
mesecon.queue.actions = mesecon.file2table("mesecon_actionqueue")
minetest.register_on_shutdown(function()
mesecon.queue.actions = table2file(wpath.."/mesecon_actionqueue", mesecon.queue.actions)
mesecon.table2file("mesecon_actionqueue", mesecon.queue.actions)
end)