Server Issues: Crashes, Lag, Restarts, Rollbacks

[GabrielZorrilla]

And no, you didn't read the message about 2 GB of RAM wrong. We just haven't needed more than that before the last few weeks, so there hasn't been any reason to buy any more.

Ok, hope you guys will get more! I'm dying to get some friends and relatives to play the game, but i'm restraining myself coz the sucky performance that will demoralize them.

EDIT: About nginx, whyever is it a web server and a mail proxy in the same program? I don't want to be overly critical before having looked at it closer, but that just smells of monolithical uglyness to me.

I do not have experience with the email thing, i just configurated once for a server at work which runs a basic PHP ticket system. Has many configuration options and i believe all Apache work is 100% compatible with it. You may or may not like it's architecture, but look at the numbers. I believe it deserves a couple of hours of research from your time.

[loftar]

Ok, hope you guys will get more! I'm dying to get some friends and relatives to play the game, but i'm restraining myself coz the sucky performance that will demoralize them.

Yes, you may want to look back a bit in the thread. ;)

i believe all Apache work is 100% compatible with it.

Unfortunately, mod_python is very tightly bound to Apache. I don't like it very much either and would rather switch to some WSGI-based interface or something; but again, that would take time.

[ralphdestroyer]

at the moment, when i get to a certain part where my wagon now is holding.. the server stops respond to my pc or something, the game jsut stops reacting pretty much, i cant log back into my charater, and i can only log into my hearth fire, what is wrong?

[Wolfang]

120 pplz--->lag? something you guys are updating?

[Grog]

220 ppl without any lag before. so i guess yes

or it really is a demon after all

[loftar]

120 pplz--->lag? something you guys are updating?

More likely, 100 people were just dropped because no packets could get through and/or because the server was swapped out.

[Wolfang]

haha naais i was one of the 120 people who stayed on =D

[ralphdestroyer]

now it is kind of jumping, no lagg, the a HUGE SPIKE! a few min pass again with no lagg.. what the heck? now finnaly got my wagon back :S (through it had been searched, but nothing taken^^)

[DrSun]

If you mean that it would somehow make Apache perform worse, then you'd have to explain yourself, because I see no reason why that should happen.

For that matter, Apache doesn't just serve the minimaps; it also serves any resources that aren't in the JAR file and, more importantly, the JNLP file and resources for the client.

more places to cache. ofc apache performance depends on number of players, not size of map.
but memory consuption depends directly. more memory needs, more swap, more io operations, LAGS at the end.

[Lebannehn]

memory leak i think.