Subj : Re: src/doors/syncdoom/sy
To   : Rob Swindell (on Debian L
From : Darksix
Date : Mon Jun 22 2026 15:08:30

> https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/b4c533c170213b49b9820604 Modified Files: 	src/doors/syncdoom/syncdoom.c Log Message: syncdoom: cap the
> text-tier render grid on oversized terminals
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> A maximized terminal can measure huge (e.g. 561x105); the text tier then renders the full grid -- ~330 KB per frame, 1.5+ MB/s -- which floods the link and
> trips the dead-client watchdog, so the door looks like it auto-terminates. Beyond Doom's own detail the extra cells add only bytes, so cap the text grid to
> [video] text_max_cols x text_max_rows (default 200x80; 0 = uncapped). Invisible for normal terminals; it only bounds the maximized case.
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> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> 
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330KB per frame is ridiculous, should be about 87 bytes at the most or less, need to send just the posistion for (x,y) of player, and other players coords.
and use a central server to do the packet updates via that way, or others.. then it would be 2KB a second or around there.

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