Lag

[Sarge]

Holy shit, this lag is becoming impossible

Jorb/Loftar, please tell us you guys are working on it?

[sikgamer]

I can't even connect at all

[sikgamer]

Wow I just connected and it really is horribly slow.

[Fluffy]

I'm having no lag right now >.>

[loftar]

There are a few reasons for lag, but the main one recently has been that the server just doesn't have enough RAM. I'd like to fix it, but we're always forgetting to buy new RAM. :)

[Fluffy]

There are a few reasons for lag, but the main one recently has been that the server just doesn't have enough RAM. I'd like to fix it, but we're always forgetting to buy new RAM.

How much RAM does the server use/need?

[loftar]

As it is now, the game server process itself uses somewhere between about 500-900 MB depending on how much of the map is loaded; but then, the same server also runs Apache, which takes about as much, depending on load (it starts new processes on demand); and then there are a few miscellaneous processes running on it as well, of course. It has 1 GB physical RAM, so it usually uses about 500-1200 MB or so of swap.

That's usually quite fine -- as long as it's just the game server, a little bit of swapping is fine and it's hardly affected at all -- but when Apache starts being hit too badly as well, it starts thrashing quite a bit from time to time.

In other words, another GB or so of RAM wouldn't exactly hurt performance. :)

It should be mentioned that I've also been considering moving Apache to a separate machine, but the network infrastructure at Jorb's is a bit lackluster, and I haven't bothered fixing it up.

[sikgamer]

500-900MB to run a ~50 player at once server with huge amounts of land?
Wow that is really optimized.

[Fluffy]

Really only about a gig? I thought you'd need more for a server.. Then again, H&H has a small player base right now.

You'd better get a shitload more RAM before you trust that map generator of yours to create an infinitely large map

[Lokito_fp]

i agree with fluffy sometimes i get a massive lagspike when playing by 2 or 3 mins