Brent Batas (Lisk) suggested an idea · Jul 30, 2018 at 03:05 AM · Custom Game Servers

Automatically shutdown a server after X amount of time

Due to a server bug, we have servers that start up, but remain in some "limbo" state where they are taking up server resources, but not actually allowing players to connect.

It would be very nice if we could turn on a feature that auto-terminated long-running servers. Our game sessions are about 25 minutes long on average, and max out around 35 minutes, so absolutely nothing should be running beyond an hour.

I would love to be able to automatically terminate servers after an hour.

Chad Franklin commented · Jun 05 at 09:33 AM

Any chance you've encountered a solution for this?

Brandon Phillips commented · Jun 05 at 09:52 AM

We terminate our sessions after a certain time limit. In Unity, what we do is:

void Update() {
    if (Time.timeSinceLevelLoad > maxTime) {
        Shutdown();
    }
}

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Chad Franklin · Jun 05 at 11:09 PM 0

Good enough for me. Thanks :)

Brandon Phillips Chad Franklin · Jun 06 at 12:52 AM 1

@Chad Franklin Sure thing! Although, since this would be run every frame, you might want to instead do something like:

private bool didShutdown = false;

void Update() {
    if (Time.timeSinceLevelLoad > maxTime && !didShutdown) {
        didShutdown = true;
        //your shutdown code here
    }
}

Chad Franklin Brandon Phillips · Jun 06 at 01:26 AM 0

Thanks again for pointing that out, probably just saved me a lot of trouble.

Automatically shutdown a server after X amount of time

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