It often happens that, playing on some server in any cooperative game, the user logs in and does not understand what happened to his account and where everything went: level, money, property - everything. The administration explains this with one simple word - wipe. So what is a wipe server? With this and have to figure it out.
What is a wipe?
Many users of computer equipment constantly have questions, and today one of them will be sorted out - wipe. To clarify what a wipe is, you need to understand the concept of "database". And this is exactly the file on the main server that is fully responsible for all the information that is transmitted, changed, stored, and all other actions. It is stored, as a rule, on the PC or server from which the broadcast occurs. So what is a wipe server? This is a complete zeroing of the database, without any hint of preserving all previous information. That is, the whole game begins anew, and it is unlikely that it will be possible to return everything as it was.
What is a wipe in Samp?
SA-MP is a multi-user application that is designed to play on client servers. In fact, this is GTA San Andreas, but with an online mode in which a participant can play the role of a gangster or legalist. The data of each registered player is stored in the database, and everything that belongs to him (and this is the level, money, skin, car, house) is recorded in the database. Wipe on the server is far from uncommon, why is this happening? Users for a long time register their accounts, and each new one is added to the database of a single server. Many players (almost everyone) register far from one account for themselves, and it is very difficult to track this, which to some extent clogs the base. Its size reaches a critical value, and the speed of data processing is significantly reduced. Example: a participant makes a purchase by spending a certain amount of money. After one minute, it exits from the server, but the database, due to overloading, only remembered that it had exited, since this action is easier to handle. At the next call, the player will see on his account exactly the amount of money that he had left + the price of the property that he acquired (in other words, the amount of money before the purchase). At first, of course, he will be delighted, but happiness will not be long: it will reach him that there is no property either - the account simply has not been saved. With good databases, this rarely happens, but the very essence of the game in SA-MP is sometimes lost, because what incentive to play if one of the players already has a 70+ level account? It is much more interesting when everyone is on equal footing from the very beginning (wipes usually raise online by 20-30%, but this is literally 1-2 weeks, then everything falls into place)
What's with Android, or why the phone is buggy
Each smartphone owner faced problems with functionality and performance when responding to commands that come from the user. Often this simply infuriates users: it’s extremely unpleasant when your phone, for which a good amount of money was paid, starts to seriously fail and is not “amenable to any persuasion”. Many blame the manufacturer for everything and talk about the low quality of the device, but few people think that he is the author of this event. For a long time, the owner of the smartphone regularly downloads and installs something in it, and then removes it. But what is the percentage of those who generally understand the meaning of the word "cache"? This cache is the garbage accumulating in the phone, the "pocket" where the browser history is saved or the next game downloaded from PlayMarket. That's right, all these files are cached, compressed and stored separately in order to be able to recover lost information, but by deleting the program that owns this cache, the user leaves it in his phone, clogging up the memory. After the accumulation of this information that the phone does not need, the memory is gradually full, and the phone loses its functional points.
Preventive action
What are wipes (Android)? It turns out they can be useful. As a preventive measure, developers recommend that all owners of Android mobile phones periodically clean it in order to avoid clogging it with unnecessary virtual slag. There are exactly three types of wipe: Factory Reset, Cache Partition, Dalvik Cache. Each reset in different parts clears some part of the memory.
Factory Reset - clears the entire phone and resets all user settings to the factory settings.
Cache Partition - completely clears the cache of used applications on the phone, but the user's personal data does not suffer.
Dalvik Cache - clears the cache of applications included on the phone, and user personal data does not suffer.
How to reset memory?
If you are interested in how to make a wipe on Android, then you just need to go into the settings and find a function called "Restore and Reset". By clicking on it and accepting all the conditions, the phone will quickly return to the factory settings and will be completely cleaned of extraneous software. Other types of wipe can be done except in the custom menu, but for this you need to have certain computer knowledge.
Total
Wipe is a useful function for any information system, but in order to use it, you need computer literacy above average, only then the next cleaning of the memory will turn into something really useful and speed up the speed of the device, to which the database itself is attached. But it’s better, of course, to turn to specialists who can globally solve the problem and, possibly, advise something better, or they themselves will perform this difficult procedure.