This is being actively investigated with high priority right now.

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Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] [hlds] TF2 server performance spikes

I've noticed that too. HUGE spikes causing waprs/lags to clients. Yellow lerp 
and ping rising up to 200 (sometimes more) for about 1-2sec. This keeps 
happening about every 1 minute. Players are fully raged by this.


2013/5/14 Kyle Sanderson <[email protected]>

> http://pastie.org/private/0nehujv54iw2lwtndcyopw
> http://pastie.org/private/hhwl7eougryhiin7n8ma
> http://pastie.org/private/t8sdtvfxuh9aigylqdc6w
> http://pastie.org/private/d4q26os0usxa4ofvd04uaw
> http://pastie.org/private/ns6sfnkp59avunqk0lkhpq
>
> The spikes seem to happen every minute. If you need more vprof spikes 
> I can now provide them. We're running with the parallel convars 
> enabled that are known to crash. Nothing has changed besides updating to 
> Steam|.
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle.
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Kyle Sanderson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > It's highly possible you're running on a supported game. I had a 
> > vprof1.txt in that directory once, and it said "no samples". I had
> thought
> > I created the file, but it's highly possible it does work. If it 
> > doesn't work for you, I have a horrible, horrible SM extension 
> > available. What it does is capture VProf output text and will write 
> > it to a file. What it isn't is portable across platforms, good, or 
> > even not a cat killer. But
> if
> > you're after trying the vprof approach, you're welcome to try it. I 
> > can probably fix it up (and make it a MM:S plugin, un-hardcode 
> > things) if there's any interest, but I'm hoping Valve fixes VProf 
> > before that
> happens.
> > I probably won't compile/support a Windows version as VTrace / 
> > Telemetry
> is
> > probably a better way forward.
> >
> > The files will be dumped in the directory that Peter Jerde mentioned 
> > (vprof/). If the directory doesn't exist, you'll probably have to 
> > create
> it
> > by hand.
> >
> > http://stuff.plaguefest.com/kyle/vprof.tar.xz
> >
> > ( tar xJvf vprof.tar.xz ) There's only TF and CS:S binaries in 
> > there. The extension can probably be independent, but this isn't 
> > intended as a fix, rather a stopgap. If you've never used a lone 
> > extension before, you
> either
> > need to manually load it, or create a .autoload file alongside the 
> > extension (VProfExt.autoload).
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Kyle.
> >
> > PS: If your cat does die, it was this.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Peter Jerde <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On May 13, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Kyle Sanderson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > There's no clean way to capture the output from vprof at the time 
> >> > of
> >> this writing.
> >>
> >> Huh?
> >>
> >> I put in:
> >>
> >> > vprof_on
> >> > vprof_dump_spikes 20       // dump a vprof report if frame rate drops
> >> below 20
> >>
> >> ... on one of my servers, and it created /tf/vprof/vprof1.txt the 
> >> first time it hit a long frame.
> >>
> >> That seems pretty clean to me.
> >>
> >>  - Peter
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