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Postby DeadlyPencil » Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:55 am

have they updated the server code recently? it seems the server is able to recover from a minute long "freeze". its happened twice where the server status page has said the server had crashed, but after 2 minutes of the game being frozen, it is able to recover.
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Re: new server code?

Postby sabinati » Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:10 am

like the one that just happened? i assume it's more a problem of connectivity than an actual crash, because i just froze, checked the homepage, it said the server appears to have crashed, but then it recovered.
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Re: new server code?

Postby DeadlyPencil » Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:12 am

yup, this is the 3rd time its happened. i thought they might have changed something so it can auto recover itself somehow.
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Re: new server code?

Postby saltmummy626 » Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:27 am

4th now. I wonder whats up?
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Re: new server code?

Postby notalbanian » Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:53 am

I'm guessing it saves some sort of debugging information and then automatically restarts.
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Re: new server code?

Postby ElGato » Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:56 am

notalbanian wrote:I'm guessing it saves some sort of debugging information and then automatically restarts.

no or else you would need to log back in everytime it happens.
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Re: new server code?

Postby spectacle » Thu Nov 04, 2010 11:03 am

IIRC the game server and homepage run on the same computer, so there shouldn't be any connectivity problems between them. It seems there's some bug that makes the server freeze up and not respond to requests from either game clients or the home page server status script.
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Re: new server code?

Postby loftar » Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:20 am

I'd guess it was just a case of the system being I/O-starved and the server program therefore hanging for a minute or more waiting in the disk queue. It sucks when it happens; optimally, the game data should be on a dedicated disk to prevent it from happening.
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Re: new server code?

Postby Granger » Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:31 pm

loftar wrote:I'd guess it was just a case of the system being I/O-starved and the server program therefore hanging for a minute or more waiting in the disk queue. It sucks when it happens; optimally, the game data should be on a dedicated disk to prevent it from happening.


In case Swapspace is needed it should be on a dedicated disk.
Preferably all disks should be SSD.
Better is to add more RAM to avoind swapping at all though.

*pressingthumbs* New server will be fun. Good luck on the migration, i hope it will go smoothly.
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Re: new server code?

Postby DigDog » Fri Nov 05, 2010 1:27 pm

Granger wrote:Preferably all disks should be SSD.

This would require a lot more donations.
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