Talk:RoboRumble/Contributing to RoboRumble

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Old wiki page: RoboRumble/StartingWithRoboRumble
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I presume all older issues are not valid anymore, otherwise you can find them on /StartingWithRoboRumbleOld or put them here below again.


Sweet. Much easier now thanks. How can I control how many battles are run at once? Or should I just setup a for loop in a batch file for that? --Miked0801

  • Halfway the file "roborumble.txt" you'll find "NUMBATTLES=xx", there you fill in the number of battles fought before uploading results and quitting robocode. In the batch-file I have made an infinitive loop so my client can run unattended all night. -- GrubbmGait
  • (Edit conflict) There are .txt files for each type of rumble - roborumble.txt, meleerumble.txt, and teamrumble.txt - in the 'roborumble' directory. The "NUMBATTLES" controls how many are run before uploading, "BATTLESPERBOT" is the minimum number of battles a bot needs before it stops getting priority, and "USER" is just to identify yourself in the logs and such. I have mine with "ITERATE=NOT" and I do use a shell script that loops to keep it running. -- Voidious

this bash script will be good for unix "roborumbler". Run forever battles, it catch standard and error stream and put it to a file in the directory ./log/tempNUMBER_OF_BATTLE.txt (the script have to be in the roborumble directory). For Linux: save it to a file in the roborumble directory, right click and set the file executable, create a directory called "log", then run the script from shell:

#!/bin/bash

echo #  new line
count=0
while [ "$var1" != "fine" ]     #  forever
do
  let "count=count+1"
  echo "battle n: " $count
  sh roborumble.sh &> ./log/temp$count.txt
  echo
done  

exit 0

p.s.: it's very useful for catch error, someone can traslate the script in windows's dos? Asdasd

Wow - is 256MB still the default for the rumble? Why not at least 512, if robocode's default itself is 512? -- Simonton

I'm not sure - maybe because the GUI takes a lot of memory? -- Skilgannon

Ehh, the GUI shouldn't, not compared to many adaptive bots (particularly log targeting). Personally I always set 512MB in the rumble, and the only time I've had an out of memory problem with 512MB was when some particularly memory-heavy team (can't remember which one) was going. Personally I'd support defaulting to 512MB, at least for teams/melee, if Fnl is listening :-) -- Rednaxela

Can someone please zip a new update, i've unzipped the archives above and still get a ton of "Ignoring xxx..." message because they weren't download...thank you! (or even better someone start a new repository and put the zipped bots there...) --Starrynte

RoboRumbler

I didn't know where to post this, but I guess the talk section is always good enough. I created an Java Application called RoboRumbler to help controlling the resources RoboRumble uses. It's basically an application to let me work and run RoboRumble at the same time, I further explain it in it's page if anyone is interested. --zyx

Hmm, I'm curious about this. How does it account for the fact that RoboRumble is highly sensitive to the amount of CPU allocated to it? (i.e. other apps taking lots of CPU can make bots skip turns and potentially give very wrong results). If this limits the CPU allocated to RoboRumble, does it correctly make sure the constant for the time robots get per turn is increased suitably? (P.S. on the new wiki you can use --~~~~ or the signature button to sign your messages with time/date easily. Personally I'd recommend it because it makes it possible to look back at conversations and know when they happened. :)) --Rednaxela 21:45, 26 November 2008 (UTC)