Server Freezes
turtsmcgurt
Join Date: 2012-11-01 Member: 165456Members, Reinforced - Supporter
Join Date: 2012-11-01 Member: 165456Members, Reinforced - Supporter
Whenever a person loads into the server, it freezes for a second. I have three ideas as to which plugins it may be...
1. Shine
2. NS2+
3. NS2Stats
my guess as to why this freeze happens is when the player successfully joins the server, the plugins are retrieving stats or general information about the person. now that I think about it, i'm leaning toward NS2Stats because I remember every time a match ends, there's one huge hiccup. I don't know if it happens on official unmodded servers (i'd imagine not), but it sounds to me like it freezes while reporting the match results to the website.
i'm probably entirely wrong about this, but when devolping my own plugins for a different game this is exactly what happened to me when I forgot to handle my database calls on a separate thread. i also don't know which plugin is causing the freezes, which is why i'm making this its own forum thread.
edit: i'm specifically talking about the KKG 250+ server right now, but I think it affects others but I can't remember. this server has a plugin that detects how many hours a person has played to determine whether or not they should be allowed to play, that's another possible reason as to why it freezes, as it's retrieving stats from some third party.
1. Shine
2. NS2+
3. NS2Stats
my guess as to why this freeze happens is when the player successfully joins the server, the plugins are retrieving stats or general information about the person. now that I think about it, i'm leaning toward NS2Stats because I remember every time a match ends, there's one huge hiccup. I don't know if it happens on official unmodded servers (i'd imagine not), but it sounds to me like it freezes while reporting the match results to the website.
i'm probably entirely wrong about this, but when devolping my own plugins for a different game this is exactly what happened to me when I forgot to handle my database calls on a separate thread. i also don't know which plugin is causing the freezes, which is why i'm making this its own forum thread.
edit: i'm specifically talking about the KKG 250+ server right now, but I think it affects others but I can't remember. this server has a plugin that detects how many hours a person has played to determine whether or not they should be allowed to play, that's another possible reason as to why it freezes, as it's retrieving stats from some third party.
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Also, there's the Hive stats system which also runs on connect and round end. If HTTP requests are causing freezes, it could also cause the problem.
I was searching for a reason for those round end freezes but it turned out that this also happens at vanilla. Not sure what exactly causes them ( entity destruction or hive stats ??? ).
And the only time i heard of those freezes if a player connects was connected with hive badges requests and the hive being down.
Never had that issue at my own server which uses mostly the same stuff as kkg, so i was never able to find the source.
If anyone finds any hint what could causes all those issues ( on some servers ) i would be happy if you would share them with me.
Could you watch the servers tickrate if those laggs are happening?
Yeah I can't even remember the last time I played on a vanilla server, so I was just assuming something like this wouldn't be in the game for as long as it has been.