Oh, my apologies then. I've read most of it, but maybe I missed when that was discussed. No one that was talking at the time had considered it, so I figured why not mention it. Hopefully a few people were helped by it, at least :v
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:23 PM, SakeFox <[email protected]> wrote: > this was something that was already talked about on the mailing list. > but it probably got pushed into what some seem to classify as spam > > Jeff Sugar wrote: > > So, InfiDel, Richard Eid, msleeper, and I were talking in the > > #hlserveradmins channel and we thought of something that will help deal > with > > the client timeouts :) We found two cvars, sv_timeout and cl_timeout, for > > the server and client to set, respectively. These Cvars determine how > long > > the client should wait for the server to respond and Vice-Versa. The > partial > > solution here is that since -most- mapchange timeouts take longer than > 30s, > > the cvars should both be changed to somewhere around 60. This will give > > ample amount of time on both ends for the client not to timeout (though > some > > admins may wish to go as high as 120 depending). > > > > Now, unfortunately, while we can set sv_timeout serverside, we aren't > able > > to control the cl_timeout that's on the client's side. Sadly, I highly > doubt > > that Valve will unlock this cvar to make things easier on us, so there's > > only so much we can do. > > > > I, for example, plan to add an entry in my rotating messages on my server > > notifying people about cl_timeout and what to set it to to avoid > disconnects > > during mapchange timeouts. Do what you want with this -- It's not a > > solution, but it's something! :) > > > > Hope this helps some people, > > -Atreus > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
