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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 > > > >-- > >// This is a comment. > >/* This is a comment. */ > ><!-- This is a comment --> > ># This is a comment. > >Have I provided enough comments? > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > >archives, please visit: > >http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > -- ...i did nothing, Michael, and it was everything i dreamed it could be! _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux

