[bf1942] Server keeps crashing above 30 players

[AIX Gaming]

Unfortunately all you'd get however are cheaters and people who warez'ed
the game.


> Issues with lag > 28 peeps seem to go away with PB turned off.  Worth
> trying ;)
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kama [mailto:kama at pvp.se]
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:41 AM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Server keeps crashing above 30 players
>
>
> Nope.. they are started clean on the command line... Ive tried the bfsmd
> hack, but never got it running as it should. ie. i could not kick or
> ban.
>
> I will probably run bvsmd whenever that comes out. I will probably never
> run that butt ugly system that comes with bfv.
>
> /Bjorn
>
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, AIX Gaming wrote:
>
>> Bjorn, is the server you're referring to being monitored by BFV CC off
>
>> a windows box?
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>> >
>> > I have a really annoying problem. It does not matter what player
>> > amount there is on the server, it crashes. It used to freeze, but
>> > that was a OS/kernel issue.
>> >
>> > The system is running on Dual Xeon 2.4GHz w HT. OS is FreeBSD
> 5.2-CURRENT.
>> > And it is random. Have not found out if there are certain maps that
>> > causing it, but according to our player base it seems not to matter
>> > what map is played.
>> >
>> > Is there anyone from DICE who wants the core files?
>> >
>> > Also, where is the logfiles? not the actionlogs, but the logs from
>> > the bfvded itself with all the error messages?
>> >
>> > /Bjorn
>> >
>> > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Bill Cuffley wrote:
>> >
>> >> Having some issues here as well, on the 64-man as soon as it goes
>> >> over ~30, extreme lag will occur, and some times the server will
> crash.
>> >> Bandwidth is fine (using approx 3Mbit up on a 100mbit pipe) and cpu
>
>> >> is fine(at about 30%), disk IO isn't out of the norms and there's
>> >> plenty of ram available.  Running on an SMP kernel on a 3.06GHz P4
>> >> /w HT and 1GB of RAM.  Has this issue been acknowleged by the DICE
> people?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> Bill
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Server Seed - Tyler Lott [mailto:tlott at serverseed.com]
>> >> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 11:37 PM
>> >> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
>> >> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Server keeps crashing above 30 players
>> >>
>> >> That's troubling.  I've been running 40 players without a hitch
>> >> (maintaining
>> >> 50+ average FPS) on a 2.8 P4/1gb RAM.
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: AIX Gaming [mailto:webmaster at aixgaming.com]
>> >> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 7:51 PM
>> >> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
>> >> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Server keeps crashing above 30 players
>> >>
>> >> What are you running that on?  I can't even do 29 players now
>> >> without my 2.8ghz P4 causing lots of player lag...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Hmmm, started with 32 and have now upped it to 64. No problems
> here.
>> >> >
>> >> > ScumBucket
>> >> > www.pbcgamers.com
>> >> > BF1942 DC & Vietnam Servers
>> >> >
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: AIX Gaming [mailto:webmaster at aixgaming.com]
>> >> > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 3:45 PM
>> >> > To: bf1942 at icculus.org
>> >> > Subject: Re: [bf1942] Server keeps crashing above 30 players
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Wow, no responses.. well, it's turned from anything around 30
>> >> > players ending in a crash, to the server just crashing no matter
>> >> > what after it's been up for a while and gets busy.  Any ideas at
>> >> > all?  I appreciate the help guys.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> Hey all, sorry if this is a repeat question as I haven't paid
>> >> >> close attention lately since I didn't have a BFV server up yet.
>
>> >> >> I just got
>> >>
>> >> >> a 2.8ghz with 1 gig ram redhat linux box on a fat pipe.  We're
>> >> >> running 32 players/desert combat/linux on a duplicate box with
>> >> >> no hassles.. Now that I'm running the latest BFV server though,
>> >> >> if it ever goes at or above 30 players for more than a few
>> >> >> minutes, the server crashes, giving me a "Broken pipe" and then
>> >> >> the prompt.  CPU and memory usage doesn't seem to be an issue as
>
>> >> >> they're not above 30%
>> >>
>> >> >> usage when it hits 30... Any ideas?
>> >> >> When I set it to 28 players it's fine.  Thanks.
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