Differ timeouts on the same map/action

[Janzert]

It's almost certainly not the situation in all the cases mentioned, but the two games shown in the first post are not quite the exact same situation from the bots perspective. Of course that may or may not have any actual bearing on the cause of the timeout.

Also the worker instances (servers to play the games) used during the open competition (at least from about mid-October on) and the ones in the finals have been and are all Amazon Ec2 c1.medium type instances.

Janzert

[SUA.khb]

[Janzert]

[Cthulhu]

the clocking is quite random...i guess while under heavy load botthreads may get suspended multiple times per turn wich leads to bots having far less than a second per move. my final submission has timeout checks all over the place but it seems like even an assignment sometimes takes more than a few hundred milliseconds.
50% of my losses are timeouts while winning (interestingly...if my bot is loosing anyways he rarely times out)
at least im not the only one with this problem:
http://ai-contest.com/visualizer.php?game_id=9346272

[SUA.khb]

Its a wonder - there is no one timeouts after Dec 1st 12:08:48

[SUA.khb]

final rank: 626
last 30 games: +29-1 (50: +48-2)

[SUA.khb]

Another reason that my bot crushed can be that there was not enough memory to start my bot at 2sec...

[SUA.khb]

[Janzert]

[SUA.khb]

And what about my bot crashes?
What's matter with game servers that they were disappeared again?
Maybe
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1185&start=10
as I understand the total bot count were reduced