[bf1942] What's happening DICE?

[luke at techfreak.org]

Michael,

Thanks for the offer to provide details. The trouble with this
apparent bug is that it seems to crop up on some servers and not
others - even on Identical machines.

For instance, I ran a 'test' BFV server for three days straight
(full most of the day as well), cycling through all maps at 24
players. Never crashed once. This was a PIV 2.8 running redhat 9.

So, feeling pretty happy with this game and its stability, I
duplicate this exact game code to three other boxes and turn em
loose. Now, two of the four servers crash constantly on map change.
They are all four EXACTLY the same hardware and Linux build.

I thought it was bad ram or something since it seemed to make no
sense that 50% of my servers would crash and the other would be
stable...... so I moved one of the faulty ones to another new and
Identical box. It crashes, too.

After reading through the forums, it seems to me that there is some
sort of software glitch that is beyond me to diagnose. But, my
experience tells me that this is not the fault of the Linux build,
or an incorrect config file. It happens on BSD, Redhat, RH
enterprise, etc.

Luke

> I know this isn't immediately helpful to those with crashes, but I
> run a
> linux server which cycles through all of the maps and have not had a
> single
> crash to date.  I've been running the server since the game release.
>  I've
> run the server on two different machines with no problems (besides
> the lag).
> If anyone would like to compare notes on configurations or system
> setup I'd
> be happy to try to help.  Obviously if this is a bug in the software
> there
> is nothing that we can do, but since the server works fine on some
> platforms
> it may be related to something else.
>
> Machine 1:
> P4 2.4Ghz with 1GB Ram
> Running RedHat
>
> Machine 2:
> Dual Xeon 2.4GHz with 1GB Ram
> Running RedHat.
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <luke at techfreak.org>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] What's happening DICE?
>
>
>> Lightcubed forums are covered with admins asking about this
>> problem
>> on BF1942. One recent thred dates to Mid-february:
>>
>>
> http://bf1942.lightcubed.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=918&highlight=crash+map+change
>>
>> Other forums and lists indicate a much more frequent crashing on
>> map
>> change in BFV. The game is essentially non-funtioning for most
>> Linux
>> admins due to this bug. The few that run it successfully, do so
>> with
>> one map.
>>
>> Take a look at the server listing for BFV - 95% are windows
>> servers..... I wonder why?
>>
>> Luke
>>
>> > Unfortunately not both BF1942 and BFV crash regularly on map
>> change
>> > here :(
>> >
>> >     Steve / K
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Steve Getman" <steve at lightcubed.com>
>> > To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
>> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:54 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [bf1942] What's happening DICE?
>> >
>> >
>> >> I believe it was fixed in BF1942.  At least my server has not
>> >> crashed in
>> >> some time.  The code for BFV was branched fairly early on and
>> >> doesn't have
>> >> all of the fixes merged in (or at least didn't when it was
>> >> launched.)
>> >> Andy can speak more intelligently to this than I can...
>> >
>> >
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