Storage size isn't of issue. What worries me is that apparently somehow a corruption can exist there which can cause a server to crash when a specific player joins.
Saint K. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of msleeper [[email protected]] Sent: 05 August 2011 20:51 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Random server crashes / temp fix It does. Even if you don't use nemrun, you should clear out your downloads periodically since srcds doesn't every do it and you'll wind up with many many gigs of sprays. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Ross Bemrose <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the nemrun startup script has an option to clear the downloads > directory every time the server starts. > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Saint K. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We've found a cause of the server crashes we were still experiencing at >> random (much much lower then before, but we still had them). >> >> We were able to locate a user who was able to crash each and every single >> server we ran, on different machines, fully tested & reproduced without >> running any modifications. All this user had to do was connect to the >> server. >> >> After removing all the content in */orangebox/tf/downloads/ on all servers >> this user was no longer able to crash them by joining. Somewhere there must >> have been some corruption in a file, triggered by this user joining. >> >> Saint K. >> >> P.s. I while writing this, I just noticed another crash on a server, so >> we're clearly not done yet with the crashes, the above just has fixed one of >> many crashes it seems >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
