[cod] Waiting for server to Load Map and Player join lag

[Eureka]

Hi,
 I havnt seen this before personally, however i had a friend who was 
having very bad load times on his server and he concluded that this was 
disk access/write times. (Your server more-or-less runs in mem until a 
map change where it has to reload stuff).
I would possibly suggest running an hdparm on your disk that the server 
is running off of.
(as sudo)
hdparm /dev/nameofdisk
(Find disk name with below command if you dont know what it is).
df -h

Also, unlikely but check if you are using any of your swap (i doubt this 
is the case, especially with 4gb of memory).

You may also not have access to all of your RAM showing up as your 
running 32 bit... you can run top or more /proc/meminfo to see this stuff.

-E

Vadim Clyne-Kelly wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Im having a problem with a new dedicated box I got. Its a Dual Xeon 
> 2.4Ghz 4GB of RAM running Ubuntu Server 32bit on a dedicated 4mb line.
>
> I am running a Sabotage server on 62.17.136.181:28960 
> <http://62.17.136.181:28960>. The Problem is once a map ends the 
> screen that says Waiting to load next map stays up for a long time 
> before the server actually loads the next map. The second problem I 
> have is there is a lag spike every time a new user connects. I don't 
> understand why these problems are happening as there are only two 
> other servers on the box and they are match servers and rarely used. I 
> have tried setting the affinity to a single core and to two cores 
> makes no difference.. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> -- 
> Thanks a million,
> Vadim