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<DIV><SPAN class=382471500-16012003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey
all,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=382471500-16012003><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been having
some very strange stuff happening on my Spearhead server the last two days. Last
night the processor % usage hit 98% for the spearhead process alone. The game
was full all day (24 players), then at around 6 pm the processor hit 98-99%
usage again (PIV 2.0) and disconnected all the players. The processor usage was
a sudden Spike from around 45% to 98%. I couldn't connect and the
game wasn't listed in gamespy, yet the process was still running on the
server ('ps -a'). Soooo, I wanted to open the 'screen' that spearhead is running
in to look at the source. when I listed the screens on the server (screen -r),
it showed three (should only be two - one for spearhead and one for rogerwilco):
'spearhead' and two others that weren't named. I tried to re-attach the
spearhead screen (screen -r xxxx tty.host) but it says that this screen doesn't
exist.......so I open one of the other two and there is the game running.
?!!?!???</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=382471500-16012003><FONT face=Arial size=2>ok, maybe I just
screwed up when I named the spearhead screen and actually loaded it in the
unnamed screen, right? Well, I figure the game is cooked, so I might as well
shut it down and restart the game. When I 'kill' the spearhead screen (figuring
this isn't the one running the game anyway, since the server stated that this
screen didn't exist), the game server goes down!!!! When I open the unnamed
screen again, there is the game data (no longer running obviously)?!?!?!
huh????</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=382471500-16012003><FONT face=Arial size=2>ok....this makes no
sense to me at all.....and I wont blame you if you don't have a clue what I am
saying. But has anyone seen anything like this before???? I am concerned because
if I made a mistake somewhere I want to correct it so my server doesn't keep
crashing and give me a bad rep! two, if the game is doing this (how, I couldn't
even guess), we should look into it now before its too
late!!!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=382471500-16012003><FONT face=Arial
size=2>-Luke</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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