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

[Vadim Clyne-Kelly]

Hey,

Thanks for the speedy reply!

I ran hdparm /dev/sda1 which is the disk the gameservers are installed on.
This was the output

/dev/sda1:
 IO_support    =  0 (default)
16-bit)
 HDIO_GET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 HDIO_GET_KEEPSETTINGS failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 readonly      =  0 (off)
 readahead     = 256 (on)
 geometry      = 10011/255/63, sectors = 154191807, start = 63

I have attached a screenshot of CPU / RAM / SWAP stats from Htop. It appears
no swap is in use and all of the 4GB is available.

2008/7/8 Eureka <eureka at fusionnetwork.us>:

> 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
>>
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Thanks,
Vadim
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