@peppy noticed recently that attempting to spectate just a few users was
very likely to end up in requests very quickly being rejected with code
429 ("Too Many Requests").
I'm somewhat certain that the reason for that is that a significant
number of players is wont to retry a lot in quick succession. That means
that spectator server is going to note a lot of gameplay start and end
messages in quick succession, too. And as it turns out, every gameplay
start would end up triggering a new beatmap set fetch request:
ccf1acce56/osu.Game/Screens/Spectate/SpectatorScreen.cs (L131-L134)ccf1acce56/osu.Game/Screens/Play/SoloSpectatorScreen.cs (L168-L172)ccf1acce56/osu.Game/Screens/Play/SoloSpectatorScreen.cs (L243-L256)
To attempt to curtail that, use the beatmap cache instead, which should
prevent these unnecessary requests from firing in the first place,
therefore reducing the chance of the client getting throttled.
This technically means that a different endpoint is used to fetch the
data (`GET /beatmaps/?ids[]=` rather than `GET
/beatmapsets/lookup?beatmap_id={id}`), but docs claim that both should
return the same data, and it looks to work fine in practice.
Compare: https://github.com/ppy/osu/pull/24548.
I don't have a reproduction scenario (judging from the stack trace
of the crash it's likely to be nigh-impossible to concoct a reliable
one), but there is some circumstantial evidence that this might help,
namely that that previous fix above worked, and the pathway that's
failing here is similarly async to the one that pull fixed. So I'm just
gonna start with that and hope that it does the job.
Closes https://github.com/ppy/osu/issues/29738.
This "regressed" in https://github.com/ppy/osu/pull/29639, but if I
didn't know better, I'd go as far as saying that this looks like a .NET
bug, because the fact that PR broke it looks not sane.
The TL;DR on this is that before the pull in question, the offending
`.Contains()` check that this commit modifies was called on a
`List<BeatmapSetInfo>`. The pull changed the collection type to
`BeatmapSetInfo[]`. That said, the call is a LINQ call, so all good,
right?
Not really. First off, the default overload resolution order means that
the previous code would call `List<T>.Contains()`, and not
`Enumerable.Contains<T>()`. Then again, why would that matter? In both
cases `T` is still `BeatmapSetInfo`, right? Well... about that...
It is difficult to tell for sure what precisely is happening here,
because of what looks like runtime magic. The end *symptom* is that the
old code ended up calling `Array<BeatmapSetInfo>.IndexOf()`, and the new
code ends up calling... `Array<object>.IndexOf()`.
So while yes, `BeatmapSetInfo` implements `IEquatable` and
the expectation would be that `Equals<BeatmapSetInfo>()` should be
getting called, the type elision to `object` means that we're back to
reference equality semantics, because that's what
`EqualityComparer.Default<object>` is.
A five-minute github search across dotnet/runtime yields this:
c4792a228e/src/coreclr/vm/array.cpp (L984-L990)
Now again, if I didn't know better, I'd see that "OPTIMIZATION:"
comment, see what transpired in this scenario, and call that
optimisation invalid, because it changes semantics. But I *probably*
know that the dotnet team knows better and am probably just going to
take it for what it is, because blame on that code looks to be years
old and it's probably not a new behaviour. (I haven't tested empirically
if it is.)
Instead the fix is just to tell the `.Contains()` method to use the
correct comparer.
