Windows Server Restarting (was Re: [bf1942] amd athalon server)

[Forrest Thiessen]

I run BFx servers on both Linux and Windows; when I use the -restart 
option on Linux, it works like a charm: every time the server crashes 
(variable, from hours to days between crashes), they restart themselves 
immediately--I highly recommend it.

On Windows, however, I have bfsm set to do automatic restarts, but when 
the server crashes I get one of those obnoxious "do you want to report 
this crash to Microsoft" dialog boxes, and until you click the "do not 
report" button, the server stays locked up, and bfsm can't restart it. 
As soon as you click the button on the dialog box, though, bfsm starts 
the server up again immediately.

Does anyone know a way to avoid getting the Microsoft crash report 
dialog box, so that bfsm can do it's work in peace?

--Forrest



Dave Snodgrass wrote:

>make sure you run bfsmd -restart
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>That way if it does crash, bfsmd will fire it back up again.
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>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:42:41 -0800, James Gurney
><james at globalmegacorp.org> wrote:
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>>We run on a dual opteron system as well. Before we upgraded, we were
>>using an Athlon based system. Unfortunately, the server does seem to
>>crash on a fairly regular basis. I found it crashed less when using the
>>dynamic version rather than the static, if that's any help.
>>
>>Also, the crash frequency seems to go up in direct proportion to the
>>number of players on the server. When we're full (40 players) it crashes
>>3 or 4 times a day. If we run a 32 player server, it hardly crashes at all.
>>
>>You may find it crashes less frequently if you disable the bots..
>>Experiment and see.
>>
>>James
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>>On 11/11/2004 5:54 PM, Scott DeLeury wrote:
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>>>Actually, I've been running a Forgotten Hope server using BFSM 4h r2 for
>>>weeks now on a stock 2.6.8-1.521smp Fedora Core 2 kernel with Dual Opteron
>>>242s and have yet to see a problem or crash.
>>>
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>>>>From: Joseph Sirucka <jsirucka at connectingyou.com.au>
>>>>Reply-To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
>>>>Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:26:19 +1100
>>>>To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
>>>>Subject: [bf1942] amd athalon server
>>>>
>>>>Hi All
>>>>
>>>>I have a thalon XP2600+ running debian, as my bf1942 server.
>>>>
>>>>I have compiled kernel 2.6.9 and it seems to run bf1942 quite well with
>>>>8 players and the rest as bots.
>>>>
>>>>occassionally the server will come to a complete stop and crash back to
>>>>the command prompt.
>>>>
>>>>we run the server via the black op bag, management software.
>>>>
>>>>The mods that this happen to are on the fogotten hope and battlegroup 42.
>>>>
>>>>is there a resolution to this problem or is just bf is not amd friendly.
>>>>
>>>>regards
>>>>
>>>>Joseph
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