I can see in the shorter video that your server drops to a double-digit framerate when the spike happens. It's likely you have something running on the box that is taking priority over the TF2 server, or you may have a plugin that's causing it. Have you done any monitoring on CPU or disk I/O?
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:18 PM, pilger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > > I'm not certain if this is the right channel to be asking for this kind of > support. If it isn't, please, forgive me and kindly direct me to a more > suitable place to ask for help. > > I have a 28 slot server operating on a rented Windows machine that has been > presenting an awful "hiccup" problem for a while now. I've asked the host > company helpdesk crue for answers and the only one i got is that the srcds > process is taking less than 50% of a CPU core so that shouldn't be the > bottleneck. They've blamed the constant updates for the issues. > > The problem can be more easily understood by watching these two videos > (i've uploaded on HD, so you can see the net_graph). > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtiErV1j5Hs&hd=1 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArWe_ODu2-Y&hd=1 > > As you can see by the net_graph, the "hiccup" reflects directly in the "sv" > dropping pretty low on the net graph, as well as the "var" spiking up to > 14~15. > > The "hiccup" can be very disturbing since it looks mostly as if your model > has bumped into a cloaked spy. > > I'm not sure if it matters at all, but these are the rates we're using: > > //Server Rates >> sv_minrate 30000 >> sv_maxrate 60000 >> sv_minupdaterate 33 >> sv_maxupdaterate 66 >> sv_mincmdrate 33 >> sv_maxcmdrate 66 >> > > If there's any information that can be handy in solving this issue, just > let me know and i'll gather them up. We're experiencing these for months now > and every single attempt to make it better failed miserably. We're so > frustrated that we're almost giving up on hosting and playing. :( > > Thanks in advance, > > > Pilger > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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