Server Server crashing when chaning map

[Jinxswe]

Trying to get my server up and running. How ever for some reason it's not showing in the server list so I try to change the map in web admin how ever the server crashes all the time.

To note: I had to manually download X3DAudio1_7.dll because it wasn't in the server files.

 

[Jinxswe]

Bump or something? Still getting this errors even after the updates

 

[Yoshiro]

Try installing these on the server box:

VC C++ Redist 2012: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679
VC C++ Redist 2010: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14632
DirectX: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34429
.net: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17718

 

[Jinxswe]

Try installing these on the server box:

VC C++ Redist 2012: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679
VC C++ Redist 2010: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14632
DirectX: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34429
.net: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17718

Still getting the same error...

 

[Jinxswe]

Try installing these on the server box:

VC C++ Redist 2012: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679
VC C++ Redist 2010: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14632
DirectX: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34429
.net: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17718

I managed to fix it... how ever now the server gets random lagspikes
And when looking in the log file for the lag spikes alot of scrips stuff shows
ScriptLog: ROGameInfo.TimeReservations 1 0x011000010292F38E timer is -1
ScriptWarning: Accessed None
RONorthPawn VNTE-Firebase.TheWorldersistentLevel.RONorthPawn_1
Function ROGame.ROPawn:TakeDamage:1084

 

[®omano]

Server specs?

 

[Jinxswe]

Server specs?

Model: HP BL460c G6
CPU: Intel Xeon L5520 2.26GHz 8MB 4C/8T
RAM: 64GB DDR3 ECC
Storage: 300GB (2x 300GB, RAID-1) HP 507284-001

 

[®omano]

I'm not sure you will be able to start it with this CPU. Your CPU VS recommended CPU:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1260&cmp[]=1204

	Intel Xeon L5520 @ 2.27GHz	Intel Xeon E3-1270 @ 3.40GHz
Clockspeed	2.3 GHz	3.4 GHz
Turbo Speed	Up to 2.5 GHz	Up to 3.8 GHz
Single Thread Rating	1034	1920
CPU Mark	4387	8239

 

[JuniperM40]

L5520 is from an old generation of Xeons; circa 2009-vintage (I use a W3690 Nehalem in my desktop from 2009 for example)

Intel ARK places it in "Products formerly Nehalem EP" - meaning it's pre sandy-bridge. Likely missing some hardware instruction sets that the UE3 engine needs.

The E3-1270 (and v2 and v3) variants are all Sandy Bridge or better (Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, etc.); that CPU is 1 generation too old.

- JM40.

 

[Cat_in_da_Hat]

Could probably do 8 V 8. Check when your ping spike starts. that is your server limit. CPU use goes up exponentially as players are added.

 

[Jinxswe]

I'm not sure you will be able to start it with this CPU. Your CPU VS recommended CPU:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1260&cmp[]=1204

	Intel Xeon L5520 @ 2.27GHz	Intel Xeon E3-1270 @ 3.40GHz
Clockspeed	2.3 GHz	3.4 GHz
Turbo Speed	Up to 2.5 GHz	Up to 3.8 GHz
Single Thread Rating	1034	1920
CPU Mark	4387	8239

The thing is that it's not using alot of CPU... only like 20% when full. And it runs it smooth except for some random lagspikes and the console isnt showing anything

 

[®omano]

I doubt it is using 20% of your cpu when my 1230v2 goes to more than 100% for one full server sometimes (I think it uses more than 100% because it uses multiple threads to run) how do you check cpu usage?

Anyway if you have lag spikes it means your CPU isn't keeping up, you are overloading it.

 

[Ton1]

I doubt it is using 20% of your cpu when my 1230v2 goes to more than 100% for one full server sometimes (I think it uses more than 100% because it uses multiple threads to run) how do you check cpu usage?

Anyway if you have lag spikes it means your CPU isn't keeping up, you are overloading it.

So ehm ... WHAT ? more than 100 % are not possible

We got an i7 6700K @ 4 Ghz Processor inside our machine and 1 Gameserver instance with 64 Players online. We had around 4 - 6 % CPU Usage. When map was changing maybe it was a very short time up to 10 %. But definately not more.

So the only reason i can imagine why something is eating up your CPU is : You had Client Side Hit detection off.

 

[Cat_in_da_Hat]

Check that you are running your server instance on a single core as it is supposed to be (is it ?). My server runs at 3.7 Ghz and gets up to 95% when 64/64. I cant see how a 4 Ghz will run at 10%. You might be having performance issues and not know about it if you are multi core. Or, can RS2 do multicore ?

 

[Rivimies]

RS2 server uses mainly just one core, just like RO2 server does. _Maybe_ the other server threads (on other cores) take a little more CPU than with RO2 server, but I have no gathered data to back this up, I was just monitoring server for some moments during the Betas.

[rs2.fi] Komppania Törni (in Finland) was full 12 hours every day of the last two Betas. I run it on 4770K @4.2 GHz and with tickrate of 25, the main thread CPU core usage was about 85% (as targeted). Player pings inside Finland were between 36 and 70, depending ofc on client local routes too. NIC is decent dedicated card, with optimized settings for game server (however, I don't think that makes too much of a difference, maybe 1-2 ms, I haven't tested with vanilla NIC settings).

I run some RO2 servers on 6700 @4 GHz too (in Germany) and I think it is a very good CPU for RO2 server. Perhaps server load variation between different maps is greater in RO2 than in RS2 (again, no gathered data, just my experience). But if tickrate is set to give max 90% main thread core load on "worst" map during arty, then the server is giving it's best.

 

[PsYcH0_Ch!cKeN]

It may or may not be significant, but we have had a lot of debug line and silly little errors getting dumped into the logs through beta. Writing to the log is quite an expensive operation and because it's a plain text file, as it grows it can cause some performance issues. A lot of these have been fixed for release and we expect the logs to be significantly quieter, which might help with this problem.

 

[Rivimies]

I forgot to suppress server log writing (script msgs) after Open Beta started and did it on day 2 of Open Beta. There was no visible performance difference I noticed. But it's true that log was huge when script msgs were not suppressed.

 

[®omano]

So ehm ... WHAT ? more than 100 % are not possible

We got an i7 6700K @ 4 Ghz Processor inside our machine and 1 Gameserver instance with 64 Players online. We had around 4 - 6 % CPU Usage. When map was changing maybe it was a very short time up to 10 %. But definately not more.

So the only reason i can imagine why something is eating up your CPU is : You had Client Side Hit detection off.

I think it actually is as my CPU has four physical cores and 8 threads, if RS 2 servers have one main threads and other small ones it can actually use more than 100% (which in my case 100% was one thread full power, I count 100% for one full thread sorry for the confusion). I don't know if that makes sense to you but I was not actually talking about more than 100% for all 4 cores / 8 threads at 100% for one server (where here it can obviously not go over 100% of CPU you're right), but I have recorded use of more than one thread usage (103% - 106% during heavy map load) so I assume RS2 servers use in a way multi thread.

Now we talk about that, AMG staff please give us some more info about CPU usage is RS 2 server strictly single thread (what I don't think at all) or does it actually take advantage of multi threading?

 

[PsYcH0_Ch!cKeN]

It's primarily single thread I believe. Some minor functions get offloaded to secondary threads, but they don't account for much CPU use. The vast majority of operations occur in the single main thread.

Someone may end up correcting me on that of course, but that's my understanding at present.

 

[®omano]

That would be cool to have someone who can answer with 100% confidence then not that I don't trust you but you seem like us to 'believe' and 'think' so you're actually not sure