[bf1942] Server keeps crashing above 30 players

[Craig Kaiser]

I love linux, but just got tired of waiting and dealing with BF server
issues.

My Linux box never crashed, but the game did often. Add remote manager
issues and what knotts.

We are a Team Server and not a business, so I switched for the good of my
club.

Windows has been rock solid, so at this point I think I made the right move.

ScumBucket
www.pbcgamers.com
BF1942 DC & Vietnam Servers

-----Original Message-----
From: AIX Gaming [mailto:webmaster at aixgaming.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 6:33 PM
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Subject: RE: [bf1942] Server keeps crashing above 30 players


Well there you go.  I've also got a BFV server running on win2k3 and it
can outpace my faster and more ram'ed linux machine any day of the week,
and it never crashes.  I'm not trying to belittle the efforts of the linux
server crowd here, but why are we getting the short end of the stick?  Why
is the windows server version so much better than the linux one for
stability and functionality?  I'd be converting this one to windows also,
but it's got a significantly higher price tag per month at the dedicated
hosting service that I'm using.  It looks like I might have to bite the
bullet on this one though.



> Beats me?
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> I have switched to Windows 2003 for awhile maybe that helps?
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> Also running a 32 player DC and a 20 player CS server on the same box.
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> No web server running at the moment. We are most likely dropping the DC
> server and just going to run the Vietnam and CS server only.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AIX Gaming [mailto:webmaster at aixgaming.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 6:16 PM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Server keeps crashing above 30 players
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> Is the bfv linux server SMP capable?  How would a processor that's not all
> that much faster than mine with a single cpu, be able to do more than
> double the number of users?  I'm running the BFV CC off a windows box,
> that manages my linux server.  When it wasn't running for a while, I
> noticed that the server seemed more stable.  Are you using the BFV CC at
> all with your linux server? I'm using Redhat linux... is the BFV server
> incompatible with some flavors of linux?
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>> Dual 2.4 Xeon
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AIX Gaming [mailto:webmaster at aixgaming.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 5:51 PM
>> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
>> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Server keeps crashing above 30 players
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>> What are you running that on?  I can't even do 29 players now without my
>> 2.8ghz P4 causing lots of player lag...
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>>> Hmmm, started with 32 and have now upped it to 64. No problems here.
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>>> ScumBucket
>>> www.pbcgamers.com
>>> BF1942 DC & Vietnam Servers
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>>> -----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
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>>> 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.
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>>>> 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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