Hi deadman standing,
A graphic is available @ http://83.98.146.100/traffic-hldslist.png (first 7 days, after that, we closed the cs servers) On the moment I looked at the traffic, it was 120 kb/s (in&out). 120kbs isnt 1.3 gig a day. but 9,9 gig's a day. Im talking about kilobytes, not kbits. Greetings, Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deadman Standing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:39 PM Subject: RE: [hlds] Much traffic, no players?! > If the requests are: > 1) From many different IP addresses > 2) Small UDP packets > 3) To the destination port(s) the games are running on > > it should be fine. When some one opens the in game browser a udp > "status" packet is send to each server in the list. Since you are > running 6 servers on a box every user will send 6 requests to you and > the boxes will respond. Though 16 gigs a day conflicts with the 120kbs > rate. At 120kbs you should see about 1.3 gigs of traffic a day. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michel > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [hlds] Much traffic, no players?! > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > Hi there all, > > > I have the following problem: > > > I got 6 cs servers on a dual amd , load is good, running linux kernel > 2.6.8. When i look in hlsw, i got timeouts of 20 secs every 15 secs. > When i look at my traffic, the box is doing +- 120 kb/s with no players > online. The timeouts in HLSW i fixed with the max_queries_sec, > max_queries_sec_global & the max_queries_window (6.0 / 60 / 120)commands > but the traffic doesn't go away, it does +- 16 gig's a day, and nobody > is playing on the servers. > All the servers have a standard config. nothing special. > > When i look at my tcpdump, then i see many, many requests to the cs > servers. example: "16:38:52.479694 IP masked.1890 > masked.27015: UDP, > length: 11 > > I reinstalled the boxes yesterday,gave the servers new ip numbers, and > after +- 12 hours, its starting again. The servers are completly > updated. They are all running slackware 10.0, with kernel 2.6.8. > > If the servers are turned off, still there is communication between the > box and all kind of ip numbers. Its all hlds related: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# tcpdump -i eth0 udp >> logfile01 > 3164 packets captured > 3164 packets received by filter > 0 packets dropped by kernel > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat logfile01 |wc -l > 3165 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# /usr/local/bin/ifstat -i eth0 > eth0 > KB/s in KB/s out > 16.57 16.28 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# > > Another strange thing is, to make sure slackware 10 & kernel 2.6 isnt > the problem, is that a box that was running redhat 9, with a 2.4 kernel, > was having the same problems. > > By the way, other servers in the same ip range, and on the same switch, > are not having this problems! > > http://83.98.146.100/hlsw-traffic.jpg > > > Kinds regards and thanks in advance for the reply's! > > > Michel > > PS: Sorry if you guys receive this mail 2 times. > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > __________ NOD32 1.822 (20040726) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.nod32.com > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
