Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Ronny Schedel
If it is every 5 minutes, then the chances are high that a master server is broken, because the heartbeat is running every 5 minutes. Hey, For a couple of hours now (15-16) there are strange lag spikes in my servers. Every 5-6-7 minutes, server ( players) freeze for 1-4 seconds. 2 machine -

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Michael Zeisberg
Confirm with me it is also so for 2 days, already have everything measured FPS drops no, routing problems can not MTR measurement is stable, the problems are with me at CSS and Dods. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- From: Ronny Schedel Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:08 AM To: Half-Life

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread Marcel
We've also noticed that. A feedback from valve would be nice... ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread Marlon Almeida | CGBR
Looks like it's happening here in Brazil as well. Customers are complaining a lot, then it's also affecting counter-strike 1.6 servers. Could anybody confirm if experiencing the same with CS 1.6? - Marlon Almeida @ CGBR ___ To unsubscribe, edit

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread Andres Pozos
Yes, orangebox and 1.6. I think any valve game Looks like it's happening here in Brazil as well. Customers are complaining a lot, then it's also affecting counter-strike 1.6 servers. Could anybody confirm if experiencing the same with CS 1.6? - Marlon Almeida @ CGBR

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread ics
This is either something related to masterservers or Steam itself. lets wait and see if Valve comments on it or quietly fixes the issue as before when there has been similiar issues, in the past. -ics - Alkuperäinen viesti -     Yes, orangebox and 1.6. I think any valve game Looks

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread Info
I have probelms too. I use linux (debian 6) and CSS on a own machine. All servers (6 gameservers) freeze for 1-10 seconds (with warning about connection problems), but the machine works fine. The problem begin at friday 10. march 2011. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:

[hlds_linux] srcds_linux multithreaded

2011-03-15 Thread Claudio Beretta
TL;DR version: are there magic command line parameters or convars that enable multithreading for srcds games on linux? Or anything that might prevent the gameserver from using more than one core? Long version: I recently changed OS from Windows 2008 64 bit to Centos 5.5 64 bit because I needed

Re: [hlds_linux] srcds_linux multithreaded

2011-03-15 Thread David Parker
As far as I know, srcds is always single-threaded.  L4D and L4D2 will use multiple CPUs if they are running multiple forks, but even in this configuration each individual fork will only use one CPU.     - Dave - Original Message - From: Claudio Beretta beretta.clau...@gmail.com Date:

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread Marlon Almeida | CGBR
Yes indeed. A customer told me the freezes started since last friday. Hope Valve doesn't take too long to fix that, it already takes 4 days. - Marlon Almeida @ CGBR ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread Christoffer Pedersen
I guess that they are already looking into this issue, as this seems to have affected a lot of servers. This also happens in L4D/L4D2, also on their own official servers. My problem with Valve is just that they don't acknowledge this bug/error/issue. This has been going on for days now and it

Re: [hlds_linux] srcds_linux multithreaded

2011-03-15 Thread Christoffer Pedersen
SRCDS does not support multithreading/multicore yet, so you don't have this option at the moment. /Chris Sendt fra min iPhone 4 Den 15/03/2011 kl. 14.48 skrev Claudio Beretta beretta.clau...@gmail.com: TL;DR version: are there magic command line parameters or convars that enable

Re: [hlds_linux] srcds_linux multithreaded

2011-03-15 Thread Claudio Beretta
thanks Chris and Dave for your replies. On windows it was working great and was definitely using more than one core. Don't tell me I have to run 32 slots servers under wine :) On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Christoffer Pedersen v...@vrod.dk wrote: SRCDS does not support

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread ics
Usually if they cannot see the problem, they cannot fix it either. I have yet to see this issue on our servers either so propably something random. -ics 15.3.2011 16:53, Christoffer Pedersen kirjoitti: I guess that they are already looking into this issue, as this seems to have affected a

Re: [hlds_linux] srcds_linux multithreaded

2011-03-15 Thread Kacper Nowak
Maybe windows was showing multicore load while process was still one thread - better load balancing under windows? thanks Chris and Dave for your replies. On windows it was working great and was definitely using more than one core. Don't tell me I have to run 32 slots servers under wine :) On

Re: [hlds_linux] srcds_linux multithreaded

2011-03-15 Thread Claudio Beretta
A few months ago there was a TF2 update that increased CPU usage significantly. The temporary workaround suggested by valve was to put -threads 3 in the commandline. I can't remember if it was a problem specific to windows or affected linux too, but from this we can say that -at least on windows-

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread Eric Riemers
I dont see these issues on our tf2 server, but i do get multiple reports that our l4d2 servers have lagspikes. On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:07:05 +0200, ics i...@ics-base.net wrote: Usually if they cannot see the problem, they cannot fix it either. I have yet to see this issue on our servers either

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread Christoffer Pedersen
As a customer that has bought several games from Valve, i would still like to know that they are aware of this. Maybe they don't know how to fix it, but it would be kind of them to inform that they are investigating this issue. /Chris Sendt fra min iPhone 4 Den 15/03/2011 kl. 16.07 skrev ics

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread Saint K .
Are only Linux servers experiencing these issues? We get the same reports for a few days already, but I don't see any of these complaints on the windows list? Cheers, Saint K. From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread RTL-Servers | Lee
Hello, Seeing nothing on the windows server side here, only Linux at present. Regards Lee Gardiner RTL-Servers ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit:

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread Anthony Stoyanov
I think so, yes. Only linux servers. Played on a couple of windows servers - no problem. On 3/15/2011 6:05 PM, Saint K. wrote: Are only Linux servers experiencing these issues? We get the same reports for a few days already, but I don't see any of these complaints on the windows list?

Re: [hlds_linux] srcds_linux multithreaded

2011-03-15 Thread Svensk Ljud Ljus Produktion
Hi ! We did use CentOS for a very short time, it wasent the best(for us). We now are using fedora core for one machine (4 cores running 2 TF2+ 1 dods). Another machine with almost same spec. running Debian (2 dods) All is 32-slots minimum installs with custom kernels (no x-windows installed)

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes (VALVe...?)

2011-03-15 Thread C Szabo
Any of you got this in serverconsole? Anyone knows whats the problem? Never had this before and it started two days ago, at the same time when the lagg started.. pipes.cpp (640) : Assertion Failed: m_cAPIPipePending == 0 pipes.cpp (640) : Assertion Failed: m_cAPIPipePending == 0 pipes.cpp

Re: [hlds_linux] srcds_linux multithreaded

2011-03-15 Thread Claudio Beretta
thanks for your feedback. Which kind of problems did you have with CentOS that forced you move to Debian? The same issue I'm experiencing when the server is full or something else? I'd rather avoid changing (again!) OS if it isn't really necessary, and I don't have a spare HDD to test it on :(

[hlds_linux] HLDS ERROR: Assertion Failed

2011-03-15 Thread C Szabo
Anyone else who gets this error below? It started like two days ago and I didn't change anything on my machine or HLDS-servers. Ive got it on three HLDS installations now. Never seen it before. The players gets disconnected. pipes.cpp (640) : Assertion Failed: m_cAPIPipePending == 0

Re: [hlds_linux] TF2 Server lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Cian Mc Govern
Hi, I'm also having similiar trouble with a 24 slot TF2 server on CentOS 5.5. There's random lag spikes occurring when the server is full. I've assigned 5 cores to it with taskset and I'm running a realtime kernel to help give it priority but it's still lagging. Anything more I can do to try

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Damian Klimek
In Poland - the same. We have checked everything - from hardware to configuration and internet connection [for floods and broken switch port]. Problem exists even on clean machines with 1-3 gameservers running simoultaneously - customers are still writing me emails about 2-3 seconds lags for

Re: [hlds_linux] srcds_linux multithreaded

2011-03-15 Thread Kyle Sanderson
CentOS isn't too great for Gameserver hosting, or so I've found. I get much better throughput with Gentoo in comparison. Debian was much better then CentOS (There have been several notable performance increases with the latest Kernels, including 2.6.38 which just came out today). Realtime is

Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS ERROR: Assertion Failed

2011-03-15 Thread Wolfmark
The message is not new, but since 2 days it appears very often. Also there are lag spikes every 5-6 minutes (some for 1-2 seconds) and sometimes some servers simply freeze. It seems that there's some synchronous communication between HLDS and Valve/Steam servers, probably related to account

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Svensk Ljud Ljus Produktion
We having these lag / spikes since yesterday, I was in a gameserver during these lag and did a tracert on my laptop during the lag, it didnt show any problem on the server or the network betwen me and the server. Every node responded as normal. We also have munin with srcds-plugin monitoring

[hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Jacob Juul
Server got reinstalled, didnt help Server got new port, didnt help All ports are open, here is what happens when it starts. The server.cfg error is because its renamed, works on our other servers, so thats not the problem And it doenst say anything about master server. Any help would be

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Ronny Schedel
What is the output of setmaster? - Original Message - From: Jacob Juul dimitri6...@hotmail.com To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:02 PM Subject: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list Server got reinstalled, didnt help Server got new port,

Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS ERROR: Assertion Failed

2011-03-15 Thread Ronny Schedel
It's the heartbeat to the master servers which causes this... - Original Message - From: Wolfmark wolfm...@gmx.com To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:45 PM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS ERROR: Assertion

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread KawMAN
Try To disable VAC, put -insecure start command line On 2011-03-15 20:55, Svensk Ljud Ljus Produktion wrote: We having these lag / spikes since yesterday, I was in a gameserver during these lag and did a tracert on my laptop during the lag, it didnt show any problem on the server or the

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Jacob Juul
1: 72.165.61.153:27015 2: 63.234.149.90:27011 From: i...@ronny-schedel.de To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:09:16 +0100 Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list What is the output of setmaster? - Original Message - From:

[hlds_linux] RES: Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Marlon Almeida | CGBR
- Marlon Almeida @CGBR Try To disable VAC, put -insecure start command line ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Ronny Schedel
This should be reachable from your server, check any firewalls. If you run some fake player plugins on your server, then your IP is banned, get a new one. - Original Message - From: Jacob Juul dimitri6...@hotmail.com To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, March 15,

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Jacob Juul
Firewall is checked, all ports open. didnt use any fake client plugins, full re-installed server. The ip has no reason to be banned, can i check up on it somehow? From: i...@ronny-schedel.de To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:32:30 +0100 Subject: Re:

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Ronny Schedel
192.168.0.15 is a private LAN address and not reachable from the Internet, it is not shown in the Steam Internet list. - Original Message - From: Jacob Juul dimitri6...@hotmail.com To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:02 PM Subject: [hlds_linux]

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Jacob Juul
Thats the intern ip the server ip is 94.101.213.15:28016 From: i...@ronny-schedel.de To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:39:57 +0100 Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list 192.168.0.15 is a private LAN address and not reachable from the

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Ronny Schedel
Then there is something wrong with your port forwarding from the external address to your internal address. Thats the intern ip the server ip is 94.101.213.15:28016 From: i...@ronny-schedel.de To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:39:57 +0100 Subject: Re:

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:38:31PM +0100, Jacob Juul wrote: Firewall is checked, all ports open. didnt use any fake client plugins, full re-installed server. The ip has no reason to be banned, can i check up on it somehow? I actually have the same issue, and I don't know why. I don't have

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Marlon Almeida | CGBR
Sorry for last dupe email. I just wanted to say that I host some cs 1.6 servers whose already get -insecure because they use another anticheat tool and even they have same lag spikes problem. Maybe would be better to try -nomaster parameter. Btw I did not try yet. Marlon Almeida @ CGBR Try To

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Milton Ngan
We have identified the problem. The server at fault should be fixed. -Original Message- From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Marlon Almeida | CGBR Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:49 PM To: 'Half-Life dedicated

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Tony Paloma
Hey Milton, Do you have any more details in regards to the problem? I'm troubled by the fact that there is any synchronous networking in srcds/steamclient. Fixing some servers on your backend isn't going to magically remove any synchronous waiting unless I am misunderstanding something.

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Anthony Stoyanov
Adding -nomaster doesn't help. I've tested it. On 3/15/2011 10:48 PM, Marlon Almeida | CGBR wrote: Sorry for last dupe email. I just wanted to say that I host some cs 1.6 servers whose already get -insecure because they use another anticheat tool and even they have same lag spikes problem.

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Jacob Juul
We have tried to run more servers on the same ip, different ports, same issue im 100% sure that the ports are open. Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:04:36 + From: harry.h...@harry.lu To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list On Tue, Mar

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Milton Ngan
There is a synchronous call to Steam to locate the error reporting server. The error reporting server went AWOL so the call to Steam got blocked. We are looking into how we can avoid this in future. This call may not even be necessary any more since we have moved to breakpad for crash

Re: [hlds_linux] Lag spikes

2011-03-15 Thread Tony Paloma
Thanks sir. Appreciate the update. -Original Message- From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Milton Ngan Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:34 PM To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list' Subject: Re:

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Svensk Ljud Ljus Produktion
The best thing to get it working is to just start the server, let it be until tomorrow - then its in the list. Dont start and stop the server all the time, then it wont be listed. Good Luck ! Peter -Ursprungligt meddelande- From: Jacob Juul Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:27 PM To:

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Tony Paloma
If everything is working properly, the server should appear in the list within seconds of it finishing loading. -Original Message- From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Svensk Ljud Ljus Produktion Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Marlon Almeida | CGBR
I guess that I have same problem with CS 1.6 servers. A few servers appears on the list, a lot of others doesn't appear, even they're in the same machine ip. I tried everthing that I know, disabling firewall, testing all sort of builds, no 3rd party plugins, all sort of parameters, sv_region 255,

[hlds_linux] Mandatory TF2 Update Released

2011-03-15 Thread Eric Smith
We've released a mandatory TF2 update. The details are below. -Eric Team Fortress 2 - Fixed a server crash caused by using the Half-Zatoichi to hit someone not holding a weapon. - Fixed the Soldier/Demoman taunts not working correctly when the Half-Zatoichi

Re: [hlds_linux] Mandatory TF2 Update Released

2011-03-15 Thread Kigen
I noticed there was a Steam update too. Nice to see work being done. :) Thanks for all your hard work. :D On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Eric Smith er...@valvesoftware.com wrote: We've released a mandatory TF2 update.  The details are below. -Eric

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Mark
I've had the same problem since forever, I have to run this version of DMC dedicated Linux servers to get them to show in the list. Protocol version 48 Exe version 1.1.2.3/Stdio (dmc) Exe build: 15:58:06 Jun 15 2009 (4617) This is a bug that Valve needs to fix

Re: [hlds_linux] nemrun 1.7

2011-03-15 Thread Nephyrin Zey
Since L4D2 servers, correct me if I'm wrong, don't accept console input, so the method it uses to shut them down (sends 'quit' to their screen session) wont work properly. You can get around this, however, using nemrun's -shutdownscript option. This lets you specify a script that will shut

[hlds_linux] TF2 Update

2011-03-15 Thread clad iron
Seems to be a TF2 update that hasn't been announced yet. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux

Re: [hlds_linux] TF2 Update

2011-03-15 Thread clad iron
nvm mind. On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:06 AM, clad iron cladi...@gmail.com wrote: Seems to be a TF2 update that hasn't been announced yet. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit:

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread clad iron
Keep in mind, if there is a update, the server will not show in the master server until the server is updated. Could possibly some of you guy just not have your servers fully updated ? On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Mark m-thor...@msn.com wrote: I've had the same problem since forever, I

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread Mark
Just the opposite, if I update it won't show up ever again. The older version works just fine. -Original Message- From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of clad iron Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:16 PM To: Half-Life

Re: [hlds_linux] Server not showing on steam list

2011-03-15 Thread clad iron
actully i see what your saying. all our windows servers are not showing, but our linux are. OS related... ? On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Mark m-thor...@msn.com wrote: Just the opposite, if I update it won't show up ever again. The older version works just fine. -Original