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Topic: 2024/8/19 Server Upgrade

Hello all,

I've upgraded the server today. Instead of 8GB of RAM, it now has 32GB. I've also replaced the two very old hard drives with two relatively new solid state drives.

The operating system drive is still ancient, so that will need to be replaced eventually, but *if* the cause of our lag problems was related to the hard drives, the solid state drives should be a meaningful improvement. If the actual problem was something else, well, this still needed to be done eventually.

I've also moved patching to my CDN server, so that people downloading patches doesn't lag the game server.

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Re: 2024/8/19 Server Upgrade

Thanks, James.

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Re: 2024/8/19 Server Upgrade

If it's still lagging, next things to investigate will be:
- replacing the OS drive
- seeing if somebody did a really bad job coding a script (probably should have looked at this first, but I know the hard drives were getting old)
Regardless, just being a SSD instead of a HDD should make many things snappier all around. Scripts that check player flags, etc.

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Re: 2024/8/19 Server Upgrade

It seems way faster/smoother now, we lagged for 1 or 2 seconds after a few mins that server was up, but no more than that.

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Re: 2024/8/19 Server Upgrade

Thank you James! Glad the install went very smooth. We will be sure to report back in if we se noticeable issues more than just some small hiccups.

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Re: 2024/8/19 Server Upgrade

Server lag update:
First off, thank you again. Server lag seems to be overall much better.

I am not sure it is totally gone however. I seem to have experienced some at times, but I will admit that I am not on the best internet connection right now.

One checkable way to see if there is server lag would be to check the code for Faldon's Day cycle.
Is it set to Exactly 48 minutes and 0 seconds?
I have done some timers and it is always coming back at 48 minutes and 27 seconds.

The question is, what is causing the extra 27 seconds?
Is this the result of server lag/hardware, or something coding related, something else?

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Re: 2024/8/19 Server Upgrade

James,

Regarding the movement of the doll and the constant "Locks" when using the Teleport magic, is this being checked?

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Re: 2024/8/19 Server Upgrade

I haven't had it lock when teleporting for me. What do I need to do to make it do that? Thanks!

If I have time I am going to redo some of the movement code next week.

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Re: 2024/8/19 Server Upgrade

Hi James, I send you a mail with a capture of the teleport bug happening.

-It mostly seems to happen (to me) when I have pets.
-It causes a complete standstill to all function. Cant click, right click, select new skill/spell etc. You can only use chat.
-When you get warped or killed it releases your character.

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Re: 2024/8/19 Server Upgrade

Things are, generally, running better.  I am noticing the server and client seems to desync.  Melee against monsters is all over the place.  Sometimes I'll hit a monster and it's corpse will drop a few tiles behind me and other odd things.  I have a wire connection and fast enough internet, so latency shouldn't be a problem.

Last edited by pennywise (August 23rd, 2024 11:49 AM)

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Mister Rob wrote:

Hi James, I send you a mail with a capture of the teleport bug happening.

-It mostly seems to happen (to me) when I have pets.
-It causes a complete standstill to all function. Cant click, right click, select new skill/spell etc. You can only use chat.
-When you get warped or killed it releases your character.


Exactly.

It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens frequently... Unfortunately, I can't shoot it... As mentioned above, the doll gets stuck and nothing works, no action, magic, it only comes back when it is killed or relogged in the game.

For me it happens both with pets and without them.