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Just broke the record for longest running evo sim

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EricL:
No one has ever run a sim for this many cumulative hours.  How do I know?  The total number of seconds a sim has run is stored as the Long valued variable 'sec'.  The number of minutes a sim has run is then calculated by dividing by 60 and assigned to an Integer (!) causing an overflow.  In short, DB crashes when a sim is run this long in all versions pre 2.42.9t.  I've now fixed this and run past this limit with my evosim, so while I assume people may have run for more cycles (mine is a large sim and is currently only at 18M cycles) I assume no one has ever run this many hours on a single sim.  

Fixed in 2.42.9t.

Jez:
You never stop do you, this must be the most in depth bug fix DB has ever had the pleasure of being submitted to!

/me toasts Eric.  

btw, disappearing bots, my current nemesis...

I'll do a compiled rerun of the leagues to see if I hit the same problem again though.  

(Over three weeks running time. Wow!!)  

Testlund:

--- Quote from: EricL ---...so while I assume people may have run for more cycles (mine is a large sim and is currently only at 18M cycles) I assume no one has ever run this many hours on a single sim.  
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That is likely true. I didn't count the hours for my longest sim but it reached beyond 23 M cycles. I know because I have a saved screenshot from it, but it was probably running slightly faster than yours. Also I found that the timer isn't exact, especially if the sim runs very slow. So to be sure you need to use your watch. Hehe.  

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