[cod] hitch warnings

[BludGeonT[EUG]]

Hitch warnings typically are not serious.  You will see many of them
after starting up a server instance as the server initializes and gets
everything set, all the I/O going on as the server loads the levels
and such has a little impact on the responsiveness of the system as it
is loading.  They should go away or be very infrequent after the
server has loaded everything up, and allows itself to cool down.  You
might also see them if you have a full server, running too many player
slots than the system can handle as one example.  You also might
experience them after a level change also in the game, even if it has
been up and running for a while. I dont usually worry about it unless
they are streaming in constantly, which can be a signal of also a hung
server, meaning it is up and running, but sitting in limbo waiting for
a map, and taking up 100% of one CPU while it veg's there waiting to
be restarted, or mapcycled.

Hope this helps, this is based off of my experiences

BludGeonT[EUG]
EarthLink Ultimate Gaming


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:55:02 -0400, Orr, Roland Cadet
<orr at cadetmail.uscga.edu> wrote:
> i get hitch warnings sometimes.  the time it gives is usually the number of milliseconds of lag the server experienced.  players may or may not notice it.  i'd give you my system specs but it wouldn't relate well cuz its a gimpy 3 year old laptop running a LAN dedicated server :)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jase [mailto:shoefly at sover.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:37 PM
> To: cod at icculus.org
> Subject: [cod] hitch warnings
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> Anyone else notice alot of hitch warning messages on their CoD:UO
> servers? The one Im noticing it on is an athlon xp 3000 with 1gig of
> pc3200 ram.. with or without vehichles im getting qquite a few of these.
> Ive got not much else running. apache and mysql thats abotu it. neither
> of those is particualrly busy.
> Jase
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