Forum

you can nothing do about - only stop dedicated service - but then ?
forget it and wait, the only thing you can do.

Another note, someone is hopping around doing ddos on the servers again. We were hit four times in the last week or so. Last time was just a little while ago. Everything back up now. Wish the worthless person with no life would get one and live it.

yes, thanks. but then all will have lag, not only a few.

Just a side note:
If there is lag on you server it must not have to do with your connection.
(Whereby it is pretty obvious yours take part in it)

If your server is busy doing other things, packets cant be send until they are processed.

thank you Rob
the servers are doing nothing then, memory load 56% form 16 GB, CPU 1-2% while players are playing, not more. I had over 50 players on the servers without any lag 4-5 month ago. I am sure it is not a problem of the servers.

maybe something with the new SAI, maybe not. therefore I disabled SAI on all our servers for a test phase to see.

so yesterday I had 3 players on Mout McKenna with some lag. but this time, the internet connection was really good. so the problem also must be searched by player itself, also operating systems and  -  aa25assist configurations  - .

for a short time, I deactivated the SAI on all of my servers to see how it could have impact on this problem. I do not think, that it is on this side, but maybe it could be.

as you can see, one of the players with some lag had a good connection on internet:

16.08.2013 on Mount McKenna:

Player -cb.ganja, IP 91.178.60.10 and the result of "tracert":

 7 26 ms 27 ms 27 ms 130-220-3-213.bluewin.ch [213.3.220.130]
 8 29 ms 27 ms 27 ms i79zhb-025-hun0-8-0-0.bb.ip-plus.net [138.187.129.17]
 9 34 ms 35 ms 35 ms i00ffm-015-hun0-6-0-0.bb.ip-plus.net [138.187.129.29]
 10 33 ms 32 ms 32 ms bics-frankfurt-ten1.bb.ip-plus.net [193.5.122.69]
 11 47 ms 47 ms 47 ms bru-11-r6-t4-2.car.belbone.be [80.84.18.20]
 12 47 ms 47 ms 47 ms 94.102.162.66
 13 41 ms 41 ms 41 ms 94.102.162.147
 14 41 ms 40 ms 54 ms 80.84.23.95
 15 42 ms 41 ms 41 ms lag-12-1000.ibrmar1.isp.belgacom.be [91.183.246.143]
 16 40 ms 41 ms 41 ms sr02mar5.isp.belgacom.be [91.183.242.99]

this tracert was NOT done at the same time the lag appears, so it is not really to be taken as it.

25ms first hop is not good merlin is that ADSL? Here in the UK on fibre broadband you can get your first hop down to 8ms. Our dedicated with server has a 2ms first hop. Its an indication of how far you are from the core of the internet.

yes Jonny, that's VDSL with the max. speed of copper cable (50000/5000). I could have fibre broadband too, but only in about 3 month; not at the moment.

And for about two weeks now there is off and on severe lag on a bunch of servers, it's not just one or two. And has nothing to do with people joining servers they are to far from, there is an actual problem.

yes, this is probably another reason for some lag. but look at this guy coming from Tel Aviv, it is for sure a internet connection problem on his side:

Player -.BuLLeT.- (one of our Isreal friends), IP: 2.55.135.48 and the result of "tracert":

 7 26 ms 27 ms 28 ms 134-220-3-213.bluewin.ch [213.3.220.134]
 8 30 ms 27 ms 27 ms i79zhb-025-hun0-8-0-0.bb.ip-plus.net [138.187.129.17]
 9 44 ms 43 ms 44 ms i00lon-015-ten4-2.bb.ip-plus.net [138.187.129.194]
 10 44 ms 44 ms 44 ms edge.lon-01012.net.il [195.66.225.114]
 11 54 ms 49 ms 49 ms EDGE-FRA-02-ge-4-0-0-126.ip4.012.net.il [80.179.166.170]
 12 57 ms 55 ms 55 ms EDGE-FRA-01-ae3-51.ip4.012.net.il [80.179.166.163]
 13 56 ms 64 ms 64 ms EDGE-FRA-02-ae0-0.ip4.012.net.il [80.179.166.82]
 14 55 ms 56 ms 56 ms 80.179.166.54.static.012.net.il [80.179.166.54]
 15 158 ms 116 ms 117 E-MR-so-9-1-0-0.ip4.012.net.il [80.179.166.30]
 16 118 ms 119 ms 117 ms CORE-1.MRK-gig4-6.bb.012.net.il [212.199.5.158]
 17 118 ms 117 ms 117 ms 82.102.133.173

this shows me, that the internet connection from TelAviv to -.BuLLeT.'s-home is not really good. and this is not a problem of the server.

you should not use colors, just let all the written text white. then it works at least at home servers.
none of mine do crash at the end of a tournament. and the results are written to the directory "tournamentresults" at the system folder. It looks then like:

[Statistics]

Team0Name=Your Team
Team1Name=SWISS
Team0Wins=6
Team1Wins=6
Ties=0
TotalTeam0Score=700
TotalTeam1Score=710

[Team0PlayerList]
Player="[HT]-Wolfjee+",50,-80,0,0,0,2,310
Player="[HT]-Mega_Toby^^",110,-70,0,0,0,2,390

[Team1PlayerList]
Player="[SWISS]Merlin",120,-60,0,0,0,2,400
Player="[SWISS]Cheesy",30,-100,0,0,0,2,310

[Spectators]

[Administrators]

[Rules]
ServerName=SWISSTournamentServer
Map=SFoasis
TournamentRounds=12
RoundLength=6
WarmupTime=5
SwapLimit=6
SwapTime=180
TieRules=Ties Allowed
RequestTime=30
TeamPasswordsUsed=No
TeamCaptainsAllowed=True
PBEnabled=1
SpectatorRules=No Bodies,
AllWeaponSlotsOpen=False
DeathMessagesShown=True
HUDHideAmmoCount=False
HUDHideWeaponStatus=False
HUDHideWeapon=False
HUDHideGrenades=False
HUDHideHealth=False
HUDHideCombatEffect=False
HUDHideOptics=False
HUDHideCompass=False
HUDHideTimerDisplayed=False
HUDHideObjectives=False
ServerRegion=0
MinHonor=10
MaxHonor=100
MaxPlayers=26
MaxAdmins=4
MaxSpectators=3
RoundDelayTime=15
ServerPort=8916
ServerIP=0.0.0.0
ScoreMode=SSM_On
MOTD1=do not forget to start demorec
MOTD2=
MOTD3=
MOTD4=

yeah, could be a reason. I never lean - so I never had this.