> We had a similar problem with random choke and lag spikes. Turned out > to be due to having a large number of files in > path.to.srcds/cstrike/downloads (mostly custom sprays) the servers was > essentially hiccupping when parsing this directory prior to saving a new > spray. > > I now have a script that deletes the contents of this directory every > night and restarts the server. > > May not be your problem but worth checking on.
>>Would you mind providing us an insight into that script? And don't one >>provoke more traffic by deleting those files on a daily basis, because >>every player uploads his spray every day again? >>Regards >>Christoph Here's the part of the script that deletes the files: #!/bin/sh # # echo css1= ls -1 /gaming/css1/cstrike/downloads |wc -l rm -rf /gaming/css1/cstrike/downloads/* The first line counts the number of files before deleting them mostly for my own information. The script is run as a cron job so it reports the output in an email to me. I have 8 server instances running so it repeats for the others. Then it calls my restart script to restart the associated server. Yes it probably does require more bandwidth per day than it used to but the increase hasn't been significant enough to show up as an increase in my bandwidth utilization reports. On the other hand the lag spikes we were seeing have disappeared completely after initially deleting the over 1 million files that had built up in the year before I discovered the problem. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
