PC Workshop for server excessive disk activity

[®omano]

Opening a thread from this post https://forums.tripwireinteractive....map-install-issue.2332116/page-2#post-2335155

The Workshop for server checks items status every 60 seconds, and it seems to READ a lot for that, which makes no sense to me, it may result in overwhelming the disk if you have a lot of items and/or multiple servers using Workshop.

I guess the way you check Workshop items is bad.

 

[Kittenmittens]

Thanks. Added this to the information we've gathered about the issue.

 

[Unikpetite]

This is what's happening and causing damage while having multiple servers with 30 maps.

 

[®omano]

Pray for 'not another year' of 'not fixing it' now..

 

[®omano]

I just updated my server to BETA branch and it seems to do lot of reads at first server start right after the beta update, then the situation calms down and looks relatively normal. From the look of it, seems like it works like before (when server starts it has the same behaviour as before from my observations) but does not do regular checks every 60 seconds, it seems to only check on server startup (or I might need to do extended tests to see if it continues to do other checks later). Subsequent restarts show less reading on restart so maybe the system properly works and doesn't check recently checked items or do it differently now.
For sure it seems to be better now. People who had issues previously should test their servers and see if the workshop is still creating issues for them.

If we can have more insider information too about the 'fix' that would help monitor what is working or not as intended from this patch.

edit: I can see this patch also deployed to RS 2 servers, I now see they are doing lot of reads like KF 2 servers did before the beta update.

 

[fwfdf1reman]

I talked to John at NFO to get his feedback since they pushed the beta out to all KF2 instances at NFO as this game was thrashing their boxes!
He states basically what you found Romano. Initially after reboot/startup, lots of disc usage as it checks the Workshop stuff, then it calms down.
He is hoping they improve on it and according to him, he has been communicating with Tripwire on the issue.

 

[®omano]

Since you fixed the disk activity, I noticed it seems you actualy broke the workshop, hence the low disk activity.

On a fresh server, add your workshop items, restart server, it downloads OK.
Then stop server and add new items to downlaod from workshop, restart server, it doesn't download. Here is what I need to do in order to download again new workshop items;

rm -Rf %home_path%/KFGame/Cache/*
rm -Rf %home_path%/Binaries/Win64/steamapps/workshop/content/232090/*
rm %home_path%/Binaries/Win64/steamapps/workshop/appworkshop_232090.acf
touch %home_path%/Binaries/Win64/steamapps/workshop/appworkshop_232090.acf

I remove the content of /KFGame/Cache/ and /Binaries/Win64/steamapps/workshop/content/232090/ and I empty the file /Binaries/Win64/steamapps/workshop/appworkshop_232090.acf

then if I restart server it acts as a fresh server and downloads everything.

@Yoshiro
@Kittenmittens

 

[Yoshiro]

I have passed this along for the team to look into, thanks for the heads up.

 

[oldschool]

It is unbelievable that after this many years and versions released you guys can't fix this problem?!
The client replication still doesn't work properly...