Re: Frequent server crashes

**Agamemnon** · 12-16-2007, 03:08 AM

Yet another server crash, this one at 11 PST 12/15 with a full server on ns_nancy. Seems to have taken down both servers simultaneously.

**Pokerface** · 12-16-2007, 03:11 AM

'Nother dadgum update. I'm going to talk to Apo to see what can be done with regard to the hosting and its need to apply patches.

**ChopStick** · 12-20-2007, 01:05 AM

There is another server issue that has been popping up the past few days: server lag. From time to time, the server will randomly start lagging; by this I mean that everyones ping spikes to ~500 ms and teleporting occurs. I don't really have any additional information other than to say their will be a cluster of these "spikes" and then nothing for a while. I didn't write down any times, but if a hosting issue is being looked at, this might affect it...

**Pokerface** · 12-20-2007, 03:46 PM

/grumble

I hate that we've not tweaked things in forever and all of a sudden have issues. It's one thing when Wyz accidentally deletes the HLDS folder -- we have a good explanation then -- but this stuff is just vexing.

**Turbinator** · 12-22-2007, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by Pokerface

Wow. Sucker died in the middle of a log entry... this is the whole last line:
L 12/05/2007 - 01:08:58: "HUA<496><STEAM_X:X:XXXXXX><marine1team>" tri

lol HUA crashed the server

**Kerostasis** · 12-28-2007, 05:01 PM

Crashed again last night. Full server around 9PM Central, game ended, crash on map switch -- it came back up again within probably 20 seconds, but not everyone rejoined and I don't think we got back to full server again that night.

Note however that my memory is foggy after waiting an entire day to post this, so I could be leaving out critical details. I can't be completely sure it wasn't just a STEAM hiccup.

**Quick and Easy** · 01-04-2008, 02:48 AM

We seem to have discovered the cause of the random lag spikes.

We were playing on ns_lost around midnight eastern, and somebody noticed that every time the commander typed something, the server would spike. After a couple of dead lifeforms, it was confirmed.

I don't know if this would also account for the server crashing, but it would seem to make sense with the "random" spiking since comms on TG don't type often.

**Donat** · 01-04-2008, 08:45 AM

An interestig thought. Didn't we do an update that would make the commander text change color? Perhaps thats effecting it.

**Dead_Meat** · 01-04-2008, 03:19 PM

so when quick goes fade have the comm start typing

woot new strat

**lagarto** · 01-04-2008, 03:54 PM

That bug is different from the random lag spikes. This commander typing bug doesn't affect anyone's ping, it just pauses the server for like half a second. Sort of like a delay function is executed in the server. The random lag spikes made the server feel like Jigglypuff's, with everyone's ping going up to 150-250 for a while. And btw, I haven't seen that happen for a while now.

Back into the commander typing bug, I've seen it happen twice, and both times were on ns_lost. I suspect it's something to do with the plugin to make the comm's text pink, and probably the map, too, since it hasn't happened on other maps.

**Quick and Easy** · 01-04-2008, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by Dead_Meat

so when quick goes fade have the comm start typing

woot new strat

lol

Well, that strat worked on my onos last night.

But what lagarto said makes sense, so it might just be a map specific thing.

**FireFly** · 01-04-2008, 07:53 PM

its happened on viel with hassan as com, and other maps...

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