A warning about playing `hunt'!

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Yuki Cuss wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I enjoy the game of `hunt' now and then, as does everyone, I suspect.
>
> Recently, however, huntd has mysteriously stopped working as it
> should; it complains that my hunt version is mismatched, eg;
>
> celtic at xyrias:~$ hunt
> Enter your code name: celtic
> Enter your team (0-9 or nothing): 0
> hunt: Version number mismatch. No go.
> celtic at xyrias:~$
>
> I thought nothing of this, and SSHd into my friend's box where we
> happily hunted.
>
> *However*. Be very careful. A few hours after I tried to play hunt
> unsuccessfully, I noted that, whilst playing Stepmania (a graphically
> and audiably hardware-intensive game), everything was very, very
> lagged. I struggled to see why; updatedb wasn't running, nothing was
> processing in the background.
>
> Then I ran top.
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 16956 celtic    25   0  112m  30m 8420 R 49.4  3.1   0:23.98 stepmania
> 9133 celtic    25   0  2820  548  444 R 47.4  0.1 219:18.50 huntd
>
> If you read correctly, that's huntd consuming almost half of the AMD
> Athlon64 3200+, using 219 minutes of CPU time while it's been open;
> not even anyone on the server (my workstation is personal). I'm not
> quite sure what kind of bug this is, but this message is a warning; be
> careful with hunt!
Could you file a bug? One of the developers may be able to help you with
that.

Mark
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