It rarely cores a dump. The times it does, I dont know if its the same
issue. When it actually cores, I get other message than the validate.

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L 10/03/2005 - 22:21:53: World triggered "Round_Start"
Ignoring custom decal from ThE MonKeY
L 10/03/2005 - 22:21:53: "ThE MonKeY<1161><STEAM_0:0:X><>" entered the game
ERROR: couldn't open custom.hpk.
L 10/03/2005 - 22:21:53: "Alexand:Ro.<1159><STEAM_0:1:Y><>" joined team "CT"
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I am just about to set up hlds on my 6.0 server.

/Bjorn

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Gary wrote:

> Do you happen to have a coredump?
>
> At 05:31 PM 10/3/2005, kama wrote:
>
> >I really getting frustrated with all these crashes I am getting. I've been
> >trying to get any information on why these occur as it seems that I'm the
> >only one that get those. This is what I have done so far.
> >
> >Tested on two hardware platform.
> >FujitsuSiemens RX300 Dual 2.4GHz, HT enabled, 1GB RAM.
> >HP DL380 G3 2.4, HT disabled, 1GB RAM.
> >
> >Both systems are running a recent FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE, but had the same
> >problem when they where running 5.3-STABLE, which runned fine before the
> >patch.
> >linux_base-rh9, linux_base-suse5.2, linux_base-fedora-4.
> >linprocfs is mounted.
> >Fresh install of hlds without metamod or other plugins.
> >tried with and without the -beta linuxbeta switch.
> >tried with VAC2 enabled and disabled.
> >tried with a single instance of hlds
> >
> >vmstats does not show any real problems. I have higher values on other
> >machines that are comparable to those.
> >
> >It does not swap to disk.
> >
> >hlds is the only program that crashes. If it should be bad memory, other
> >programs should occationally crash also. And it seems strange that memory
> >should go bad on three different machines at the same time.
> >
> >The last line is most of the time:
> >L 10/03/2005 - 19:54:43: "name<216><STEAM_0:1:23456789><>" STEAM
> >USERID validated
> >which makes me think its related to VAC2 thread. Even though I have
> >started up the server without VAC2 it still threads the same way as it has
> >it enabled.
> >
> >It started to happen after the latest patchset.
> >
> >It does not always create a coredumpfile, so I dont have anything real to
> >go on. This happens at least 3 times per hlds instance, most of the time
> >it average to 5 per instance. So I end up with 40-50 crashes per day in
> >total.
> >
> >I getting out of ideas on what the problem is. I've been using FreeBSD and
> >hlds for around five years now and have never had these problems.
> >
> >I have also other problems that seems to be network related. Could bad
> >packets or burst of packets where the seq id get screwed up crash the
> >server? Probably not, I would rather suspect the threading, ie the
> >mainprocess tries to talk to a thread that are unavailable or not
> >responding as fast as it should.
> >
> >I will later try a test running it on FreeBSD 6.0-RELENG. This is probably
> >the last test I can think of. And I dont believe in any real success or
> >improvement.
> >
> >/Bjorn
> >
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> >
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