Yeah...this is going to be a tough one to track down. I've been on a server a couple of times that it's happened, and there was no discernible cause, other than it seemed to happen most often right after a map change while players were choosing their teams. But again, there was no crash dump, and no error messages in the logs, so it's all but impossible to put my finger on the cause. It's happened on both 24 & 32 player servers, stock and custom maps, with Sourcemod and without, etc. Server specs are:
2 x e5620 (dual quad core) 24 GB ram 2 x 500GB drives (both defragged daily) 5 TF2 instances per box (and nothing else at the moment - servers stay at 35% CPU usage or less) It's more an annoyance than anything else....the servers are all very stable (actually, they've been more stable in the last couple of months than ever before), and almost never crash, with exception of this "hang" once or twice per day. Some server will go for days without it occurring, then they'll have 1-2 hangs on the same day. Perhaps if there was some kind of verbose logging/debug file we could put on the server(s) for a couple of weeks that would detail exactly what was happening during each hang, we could be a bit more helpful to Valve in finding the problem? On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Hutch <hu...@halsplayground.com> wrote: > ** > Breaking your mail to the list out Olsen because this in particular caught > my interest. > > *E. Olsen" <ceo.eol...@gmail.com> <ceo.eol...@gmail.com>" Wrote: > "I'm seeing intermittent server hangs on our Windows Server 2008 R2 > servers. > No crash, no crash dump, the server just hangs and needs a manual > restart..." > * > Ditto, same OS have been seeing this for about 2 months now. Server > instance just freezes and required manual restart. I started eliminating > plugins and double checking SM, using latest stable, about to try latest > snapshot though I tend to prefer to not use snapshots. Did fresh server > installs as well just to cut any junk files that may have been left behind > that are no longer valid for the servers that could cause conflict. Nothing > has been revealed. Most times, again the instance just freezes. Occasionally > it will outright close and rarely do I get an error. Rarely I am blessed > with a dump. Seems to happen every 6 to 12 hrs on servers that have decent > traffic. > Looking at the dumps doesn't speak to me much. I have seen server.dll > error if I am not mistaking. Hardware has been thoroughly tested and > retested and all appears well on that end. > > Dunno, but then I am not proficient with the dump files. My wife gripes at > me cause I can't find the mustard right there in the fridge. Apparently you > have to move stuff out of the way when looking for it. > Hutch > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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