Server Crashes - Need Some Tips

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• Vadakill The Almighty BSO Join Date: 2002-04-02 Member: 373Members, NS1 Playtester

  August 2004 edited August 2004

  What else have you tried? Does plain vanilla NS server work? If you can't run a plain NS server, try removing everything except the bare minimum you need for administration and build from there.
  
  Also some other things that might help:
  What OS you have
  How much horsepower
  How much RAM
  How many players
  What you general observation is on CPU usage with a full server
  How many characters (including punctuation and spaces) your motd.txt is
  
  Whenever you get new information post it here.

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• MaverickSA Join Date: 2004-08-06 Member: 30410Members

  August 2004

  Thank you much, I shall get back to you with the info momentarily.

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• Sandman Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9870Members

  August 2004

  <!--QuoteBegin-Vadakill+Aug 6 2004, 12:54 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Vadakill @ Aug 6 2004, 12:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> What else have you tried? Does plain vanilla NS server work? If you can't run a plain NS server, try removing everything except the bare minimum you need for administration and build from there.
  
  Also some other things that might help:
  What OS you have
  How much horsepower
  How much RAM
  How many players
  What you general observation is on CPU usage with a full server
  How many characters (including punctuation and spaces) your motd.txt is
  
  Whenever you get new information post it here. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
  We have tried stripping it down to just MM, whichbot, rcbot and AMXmod and it does last just a little longer then the 30 minute adverage that we have been getting thus-far. A plain jane vanilla NS server does work and is nearly rock solid but gets quite boring quickly.
  
  As for the other info you requested......
  
  Windows XP home (sp1)
  Intel P4 3.06ghz hyperthreaded
  1gb pc2100 DDR
  12 players on a 384k UL ADSL
  Adverage CPU usage is around 20% to 30% with a full server at late game rounds.
  The MOTD is fairly short at saying only this: <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->MOTD:  Please join the MARINE team because you are playing against bots.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
  
  
  
  I hope this gives you enough info to work with. Maybe I have just overlooked something?

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• Vadakill The Almighty BSO Join Date: 2002-04-02 Member: 373Members, NS1 Playtester

  August 2004 edited August 2004

  This may not be true anymore but I'll post this here anyway as a thought.
  
  In the past, when I ran a CS server, I found that running it with bots it would often crash if any kind of message was sent to them. I would get an Uninitialized buffer_t error which would kill the server. This would not be a problem if I ran only the bots with no adminMod or AMX mod, only when I would have these administrative programs in place. What I found was happening was a plugin I had in place would try to write a message to all clients real or not. Unfortunately, there is no message buffer for bots and therefore it would crash. You might want to try turning off all plugins that modify or announce text messages and send them to all clients to see if that helps.
  
  Again, this was a long time ago, I'm sure bots are much more sophisticated now. Just a thought.

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• Bry Join Date: 2003-01-23 Member: 12609Members

  August 2004

  Yes i would say its either whichbot or rcbot or both in combination causing the problems

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• Lumpy Join Date: 2003-08-20 Member: 20026Members

  August 2004

  I can't seem to find this on either wb or rcbot's forum, but I recall that there was an issue in the not so distant past where if both rcbots and whichbots were both on aliens it would crash after awhile. This may not apply in your scenario but I figured I'd mention it just in case.

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• kabo0m KT of Insomniacs Anonymous Gaming Community Join Date: 2004-08-06 Member: 30415Members

  August 2004

  <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif' /><!--endemo--> It's a shame switching to Steam has caused these problems. We had no problem when it was 2.0.
  
  Well, just thought I'd say hi <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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• Sandman Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9870Members

  August 2004

  Thanks for all your help guys. It turned put to be Whichbot all along. Version of whichbot I have finished testing with, v0.92e through v0.93a for win32 seem to be broken. Im not sure when this problem crept in but I hope clam can fix that soon.

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