[bf1942] Server keeps crashing above 30 players

[AIX Gaming]

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.
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> 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:
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>> 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...
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>> > 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
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>> >> 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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