First of all people who are running servers on Win95 and Win98 shouldnt be allowed to play HL. Those operating systems are piss poor. I will try running a dedicated Half Life Server on my Windows XP Pro computer, and see if it is any betterthan Win2K. I am finding a lot of good stuff about Windows XP Pro. First thing is I do not think there is that Memory Leak problem as with Win2K. How did I find this out? I ran Seti@Home on my Win2K box and it ate all my memory in 3 days and I have 1Gig of RAM. I woke up and logged in and I say an error You have insuffient memory please close some programs or reboot the computer. I have had Seti@Home up ands runing in XP Pro without any memory leak issues. My workstation is as listed:
AMD 1.2Gig 266FSB Athlon ABIT KT7A-RAID 2x256MB Stick of PC133 Kingston ValueRAM 1x512MB Stick of PC133 Kingston ValueRAM SBLive Plat 5.1 GeForce3 64MB CD-RW Plextor 24/10/40A CD-ROM Mitsumi 48X 2 IBM 60GXP Hard Drives ATA100 7200 RPM 40Gigs each 1 Western Digital 40BB ATA100 7200 RPM 40Gigs HighPoint Tech HPT370 RAID Controller 420Watt Powersupply All Drives in NTFS Format I will have to load up HLDS 4108 AdminMod with MetaMod and run it and if I run it without a problem. It could be Win2K's Memory Manegement. Thanks, Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noctaire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 9:24 AM Subject: [hlds] TFC: SERIOUS problems with TFC -- I'm REALLY frustrated > PC> 1. Server crashes. About twice a day, the server goes nuts and quits. > I'm > PC> running serverdoc, which restarts the server. But the server quits > again > PC> and again and again, maybe 5 times or more, before it finally > "stabilizes" > PC> and things work okay until the next hiccup. Nothing is written to the > logs, > PC> but I did notice once that there was some sort of network error listed > in > PC> the hlds console window -- the problem is that the console window > disappears > PC> before I get a chance to read it! > > > Same here. I am now running FireDaemon to restart the server. It crashed > the other night and went through some 8 iterations of logfiles. > > PC> 2. I lose HALF my players on EVERY SINGLE map change. These players > have > PC> trouble picking a team when a map starts. The only way they can join > the > PC> game is to disconnect from the server and reconnect. > > I do not believe that I am seeing this at quite this level. There is an > AdminMod issue if you have Nick management enabled, which will cause this -- > could that be your culprit? > > PC> About my configuration: > PC> -- I'm running on Windows 2000 Server > PC> -- The server runs 24 players. > PC> -- 4107 ran PERFECTLY for months and months without any problems > PC> -- I'm running 4108b2 right now, but the problems exist in 4108 too. > PC> -- I'm running hlstats on the same machine as the TFC server, which > PC> collects stats from this and another server of mine. > PC> -- My machine has plenty of CPU and memory (over 100MB free > physical > PC> memory, CPU runs at about 30% with a full server) > PC> -- I have plenty of spare bandwith (1.1MB SDSL) > PC> -- sv_minrate is 3000 and sv_maxrate is 5000 > PC> -- I run the latest admin mod with some custom scripts (this is not > the > PC> culprit, see below) > > I am in almost exactly the same boat --> > > AMD Athlon TBird 850 > 512M RAM > Win2K Server Edition > HLDS 4.1.0.8b > 2 Installations of HLDS (separate IPs) w/20 players each > Ample spare resources > 2.5M/1.0M ADSL > SV_Min=3000 and SV_Max=7000 > Latest AdminMod > HLStats on same machine collecting from my servers and one other > > PC> --Bad install: ruled out. I reinstalled a virgin copy of 4108 FROM > SCRATCH > PC> and still have the same problems. > PC> --Firewall: ruled out. I have a Sonicwall Soho2 Firewall. I took it > PC> COMPLETELY out of my network for several hours and TFC was still having > PC> problems > PC> --Admin mod: ruled out. I normally run the admin mod (latest version > PC> 2.50.07 with 1.10.0.0 metamod.dll) I encountered the bugs *without* > admin > PC> mod installed, although I'm running the server now with admin mod. > > I have tried it both with and without AdminMod, single server and multiple > server, fresh installs, etc.. I tried all of the same steps you have above > and I have mine outside of the Sonicwall units I operate. (I told you we > were running almost the same setup! <Chuckle>) > > All testing aside --> this is CLEARLY an issue with the 4.1.0.8x release > series. 4.1.0.8b cleared up one type of crash but not the other. > > D> If it offers any consolation (which I know it won't) you are not > D> alone - I have been running our TFC server since the very > D> beginning of HLDS/TFC came out and we are experiencing problems > D> too. > > FWIW guys, I think you'll find a lot of this is going around. I have been > sending logs to Valve for the last couple of weeks in the hopes it will > assist them in tracking down where the issues are. I finally resorted to > loading up FireDaemon to keep the servers running without my intervention at > least. Since all of the instability, my 3 servers went from constantly busy > to zero and have just now started to hit back up to busy during peak (I am > only running two now). We host 4 clans -- one is breaking up, another is > struggling, and the other two are just getting by. > > D> Between the cheats, the unstability and other anomalous behavior, > D> we also have lost a majority of our guests. I can only hope > D> Valve is working on some new code. It might be helpful to them > D> if they released their server software to a SELECT group of > D> beta-testers who run a DS so initial reports can assist them in > D> fixing erroneous problems before they plague the entire TFC > D> community. This would entail admins running all different > D> platforms and verious setups - to cover a wider scope. Ex. - > D> some running AM, some not. Some on Win95/98 - others W2K. Etc. - > D> you get the idea. > > Even more so, I hope they will actually add those of us who are seeing these > issues to their test bed. It is all fine and well that they have the top > clan(s) / server(s), but if those groups are not seeing the issues then the > test bed is invalid. To be perfectly honest, I wish Valve would just do a > reversal and roll back to the 4.1.0.7 code to try and get this thing > properly out the door and save the playerbase. > > Noc. > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
