Hello,

 

Here is a list of all the strange and funky stuff I encountered so far in 2.9 in the hope that maybe some will know how to fix it or to help point people into some direction regarding bugs.

 

I'm not going to talk about weapons though, so please don't post about them ether

 

Let's try to find the source of these constant server crashes so it can be fixed...

 

1. Crashes / Disconnect:

a. My HL dose crash hard with some win exception (can post it if you think it will help) this happens from time to time and has been happening since 2.8 so maybe nothing to worry

b. Client 57 not present (or something along that line) you end up on the FA main menu and wonder why you where kicked from the Server. This also has been happening since 2.8 but seems to happen more frequent since 2.9 (again might be coincidence and maybe more a Steam issue than FA)

c. Sometimes I get disconnected and Steam has following message for me

"Disconnected from Server. Reason: Server shutting down" as far as I could tell no Admin was doing this and no warning or other message was seen (sorry if I'm wrong on that) which is strange, the server shouldn't shut down by itself, right?

 

2. In Game strangeness:

a. While in sd_durandal I was hiding at the bottom of the Red sewer ladder with [DIAL]Panther. I just had chosen Med1 skill and had only 2 Bandaids left I treated him then me and was out of Bandaid. But after some while I got one Bandaid back?

b. While playing in Iwo the scoreboard got messed up (see pic http://www.thearmory.cc/modules.php?set_albumName=album01&id=whatisthis&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php)

c. Server has every once in a while huge lag spikes for about 10-30seconds (latency going up to 2000 is normal) Now what's strange about this is that on my Netgarph (3) I don't see anything of this, no choke no loss and the ping is normal at 40ms.

 

 

Ok now I don't know ether the FA code nor the HL engine, so I'm making a wild guess here (FYI I'm programmer ) but some of these thing just look like memory leaks or something like that. Since the server seems to crash more often with more players and also the crashes seem very random (memory leak bugs are the worst :evil: ). It would be cool if we could somehow measure the Server Memory use and see if it increases over time up to the point where the server ether crashes or dose the weird lag spikes.

 

If you know or have other strange issues let's try to collect them all here...

...and if you know fixes or ways to help against some of these problems please post too

 

Thanks,

[DIAL]Doc

Addon, Sat night from 10pm pst till now (time of this post) all FA server seemed to behave super strange. Shutting down every once in a while (from 2minutes to 20minutes till shutdown)god-cow, <TAC>Punisher and others can confim this...Really strange and it seemed to have affected other FA servers too not just the TAC ones :PWell hope someone finds that bug soon,[DIAL]Doc

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some of these thing just look like memory leaks or something like that.

You're sure about the memory leak? Shouldn't crash the whole server, not only the game? I make some measurements with our server... but I don't have any load like the TA Servers (it's only a virtual server - vmware; Windows Server 2003) and the marine bots don't work with 2.9 (they normaly make enough load )...

 

ahah you are a liar doc...you know that you are a pizza delivery guy. this one time a went to california and ordered a pizza, then some swiss guy delivered it. so it must of been you doc...pfft programmer, programming your sterio doesn't count doc.

Now it's all clear... I ask myself quiet awhile why Doc was leaving Switzerland that fast... but this pizza must be free now! He is now more than 2 years underway for the delivery...

 

BTW. cow: you're so a nice guy... :twisted:

I have seen the memory usage and it is not even past 30% of capacity. Page file usage is low. CPU usage with both servers maxed out is around 70%. The bandwidth used is only 20% of capacity.So it is not server related at all. I would suspect Steam. I think 2.9 is fine by itself. I bet if we had a WON server with 2.9 all would be great.