[mohaa] Server "hangs"

[Chris Adams]

I've seen it once m8 :-). Looks like the craziness is only on your side.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "NateDog" <natedog550 at hotmail.com>
To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [mohaa] Server "hangs"


> Ok.  What the heck is going on.  Is hotmail screwing up?  My first email
has
> like quad drupled itself or something.  I swear I didn't do anything.  It
> keeps resending to the list.  Microsoft = retarded.  Is there any way some
> admin can stop this or whatever?  This is about to start getting on
> everyone's nerves.  Sorry peeps I'm not resending it.....must be hotmail
> servers or something.
>
> --
> Nathan Peters
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "NateDog" <natedog550 at hotmail.com>
> To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:05 AM
> Subject: [mohaa] Server "hangs"
>
>
> > I have two servers hosted at a datacenter on dual xeons with
> hyperthreading
> > and 4 gigs of RAM with ultra scsi hard drives.  I don't own these
> computers
> > of course that's just what the specs are basically.  They're running on
an
> > OC192 backbone and all that good stuff - so I have tons of bandwidth and
I
> > don't think the networking is causing this problem.  These servers are
> crazy
> > fast but sometimes the servers will "hang" then resume play.  But it's
> > really sparatic and it doesn't do it all the time.  And everyone will
hang
> > at the same time and you get that green box with the arrow on it icon at
> the
> > bottom of the screen.  But then all of a sudden it "un-hangs" and
> continues.
> > Now I realize that there is a billion things that can cause server hangs
> but
> > that's not what I'm asking really.  What I want to know are maybe tips /
> > techniques / tricks to optimize the server to lower the chances of
server
> > hangs etc etc.  Is there any cvars and such to use?  These servers are
VPS
> > servers using virtuozzo if it matters.  So there are multiple servers on
> one
> > host machine.  But mine are the only ones running game servers.  If
anyone
> > could give me some pointers for optimization I'd appreciate it.  I once
> > heard about zone and hung megs but not sure if that would help or not.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Nathan Peters
> >
>