In my experience, when it comes to shared game server hosting, slow map loads usually mean lack of free ram.
Game servers don't write that much to a disk (log files and such) to bog it down to a point that it will take 2 minutes to load a map. I mean after updates when 4 of my servers start (at the same time) on a 160GB HD with 8 mb cache they all load in under 25 secs. But ram however, is more of an issue. Say your server host runs only 2 (unlikely situation) servers per core and the server has 4 cores, that's over 2 gigs ram on start up and that grows with longer uptime, more plugins, and especially when maps don't change much (idle server. server empty most of the day). One of my idle servers is running the simplest map ever and less than base sourcemod plugins yet the ram usage is over 1GB now heh (last map change over 600 minutes ago). Anyway, that's just what I noticed. On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Cc2iscooL <[email protected]> wrote: > I kind of doubt it'll help. It may change the load times a little, maybe a > second or two at best, but it's more likely that something is eating the > disk I/O or there's a problem with the box itself. > > I'd either request a box change or a refund for slow map loading times and > unsatisfactory support. If it were a "bug in the server" it would be all > over the mailing list right now, and that hasn't happened since Valve fixed > the stats issue...but technically this doesn't mimic that problem at all. > > I had good luck with Branzone when I was with them, but stay away from > their > 128 FPS servers. They play like gameservers.com servers. > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Chris Oryschak <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > It varies, I'm running stock configs, with no sourcemod installed > > (renamed addons dir) and fastest I've gotten was 13seconds and longest > > is about 2mins. It's extremely noticeable when going from a good > > working server to mine. Even the 13seconds until you start to see the > > map loading on the client seems forever. > > > > The guy said he is going to do a defrag on the hard drive... highly > > doubt that will do anything but I'll wait and see.. and then probably > > price out a server somewhere else I'm thinking now. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cc2iscooL > > Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 9:42 PM > > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > > Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change > > > > That's kind of an unacceptable response with how much you pay for AoW > > servers. > > > > How long are the mapchanges? > > > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Chris Oryschak <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Yeah I google searched and came across that what you describe. > > > I don't load any banned ip's from a cfg so this won't be the issue, I > > > use sourcemod to manage my bans which, at the moment is empty. > > > > > > I put a support call in and got a response back saying that it's a > > "bug > > > on the server unfortunately" huff. > > > > > > > > > -Python > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] > > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew > > > Armstrong > > > Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 4:59 PM > > > To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' > > > Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change > > > > > > We've experienced this with other source based games when we listed > > > 'exec > > > banned.cfg' in our server config file, when the banned.cfg contained > > > hundreds of ban entries. > > > > > > Remove this command from your server.cfg if its present, just execute > > it > > > once on the command line. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Andrew > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] > > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris > > Oryschak > > > Sent: Monday, 15 February 2010 8:34 AM > > > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > > > Subject: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change > > > > > > Anyone ever have problems with their TF2 server + on map change it > > takes > > > a long time. > > > I'm running the server off a rented box so my access is limited but > > when > > > I look at the server logs here is what I find: > > > > > > > > > > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: "tv_relaypassword" = "" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: "tv_password" = "" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: "deathmatch" = "1" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: "coop" = "0" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: "sv_cheats" = "0" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: "sv_pausable" = "0" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: "sv_contact" = "" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: "sv_voiceenable" = "1" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: "tv_enable" = "0" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: server cvars end > > > > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:25:38: Started map "cp_dustbowl" (CRC "1303353615") > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:25:45: server_cvar: "tf_gamemode_payload" "0" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:25:45: server_cvar: "sv_tags" > > > "Vanilla,hlstatsx,increased_maxplayers" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:25:45: server_cvar: "sv_tags" > > > "Vanilla,hlstatsx,increased_maxplayers" > > > L 02/14/2010 - 13:25:45: server_cvar: "tf_gamemode_cp" "1" > > > > > > > > > Note the times from when "server cvars end" and "started map" begins. > > > It was almost 1:33 delay for this map change. Anyone have any ideas > > on > > > what could be causing this? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Chris > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
