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[Rayblon]

It's lagging like crazy and filled with zombies. Maybe the excavation project is bogging it down?

Even more zombies now, and the lag got worse. Ever time I relog, I get sent back to spawn, too.

[pspeed]

I reset it again.  If you guys are using spam-clickers then slow them down.  It's very strange to have the memory climb so high in such a short period of time.

[Rayblon]

I reset it again.  If you guys are using spam-clickers then slow them down.  It's very strange to have the memory climb so high in such a short period of time.

It may have been from all the walking I had to do when I got ported back to spawn. The worst of the lag occurred when nobody was even building.

[pspeed]

I reset it again.  If you guys are using spam-clickers then slow them down.  It's very strange to have the memory climb so high in such a short period of time.

It may have been from all the walking I had to do when I got ported back to spawn. The worst of the lag occurred when nobody was even building.

Yes, that is true.  The leak is known to be triggered by lots of rapid travel over large distances.  There was a period of time once where we had lots of people who would log in and just explore far and wide and I was having to reset the server every couple hours.

[Rayblon]

Tried to connect for about 10 minutes to no avail. I'm gonna declare a derver down.

[pspeed]

Should be back up now.

[Moonkey]

Should be back up now.

I can see why you are reworking the core networking now... xD

[pspeed]

Should be back up now.

I can see why you are reworking the core networking now... xD

This either has nothing to do with the networking layer or is out of my hands.

The thing is, lately it seems like it's just a few users who have repeated problems connecting and somehow sour the whole connection... but it's not necessarily at the application level and might be at the OS level.  It could be that running Linux magicly fixes these problems.

The normal issue that I used to get was a memory consumption issue that also had nothing to do with networking and is some deep-seated memory leak.  I can only hope to not reimplement that leak in the new engine but I can't be sure until we're pounding on it.  At least one unfortunate thing there is that the new engine doesn't have all of the instrumentation I added to track it down... on the other hand, that instrumentation would have to be wildly different in the new engine and it also never bore fruit anyway.

[Rayblon]

... Derver down?

[pspeed]

I reset it... you can try now.

[Rayblon]

Derver down strikes again.

[pspeed]

I reset the server.  Maybe it fixed it.

[Rayblon]

I reset the server.  Maybe it fixed it.

It did.

[Rayblon]

Hmm... The derver downs intermittently through the night for 20-30 mins at a time methinks.

[pspeed]

Hmm... The derver downs intermittently through the night for 20-30 mins at a time methinks.

Could be a connection problem somewhere then.  The "reset the server" related issue would be consistently bad, I guess.