[cod] 1.4 lag spikes?

[Shaun Green]

Create a pbcl.cfg with the following line 
pb_sv_CvarWalk 0 and put this your pb folder for cod on the server.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: <luke at techfreak.org>
To: <cod at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 1:06 PM
Subject: [cod] 1.4 lag spikes?


> ok ok...... I'm not trying to blame ALL my server issues on the
> patch. I'm just looking for some possible explanations regarding my
> periodic lag spikes on COD 1.4 with PB enabled.
> 
> an earlier post several weeks ago from another user:
> 
> "I get this as well.  I don't have this trouble with a 1.1 server on
> the same
> box, but I haven't tried disabling PB either.  It seems to play fine
> for a
> while, then for about 30 seconds, I get lag bursts.  Both
> green(bottom) and
> yellow(top) bars spike to the top on the lagometer if that helps any."
> 
> I started getting these odd lag spikes lasting about 1-3 seconds
> every hour or so on all my COD 1.4 servers. I naturally thought the
> Data Center was having some congestion issues, routing problems,
> etc. So, I ran countless traceroutes, monitored ping for hours on
> end, did file transfer tests, etc. I could find nothing that
> indicated the usual issues that cause lag...
> 
>  Interestingly, I also run UT2004 servers on the same machines and
> never notice the same behavior on these..... so, I'm wondering if
> there could be something up with PunkBuster, my COD config, etc
> that is causing these spikes?
> 
> Anybody still have similar issues? If so, have you identified the
> issue? Please help - this is driving me freakin nuts (mostly cause
> people complain).
> 
> Luke