My conclusion, wasn't relly a conclusion at all.
I was out of leads as to how the problem could have been fixed, and the
fact I couldn't see any network response issues, no CPU or processing
issues, I decided to take Stephen's advice to try and change my NIC.
I was fortunate that it worked, and even more so that he had taken the
time to e-mail me.
Without this suggestion, I could very well have still been searching for
a solution.
The NIC card was a fpx0 - Intel PRO/100+ adapter.
I'm not saying this adapter is not suited to servers running linux /
unix srcds. It was probably just a bad card.
I changed the card to a D-Link.
Hope this provides some insight.
Owen
-----Original Message-----
From: hondaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:27 AM
To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Massive Lag Spikes
Out of curiousity, what NIC was it? How did you conclude it was the
NIC?
Owen T. Soroke wrote:
>Thank you to everyone who offered their advice and expertise on this
>issue.
>
>As a result of my hlds_linux post, I received a personal e-mail message
>from Stephen in regards to his previous experiences with similar
>"Massive Lag Spikes".
>
>It turns out that his network interface card was the cause of his
>problems.
>
>Yesterday after a long haul getting FreeBSD 4.9 and linux_base-8
>running, I ran the source server and again started to stress test with
>20 players on the server.
>
>The same "Massive Lag Spike" problem occurred, and so I can now rule
>that it was not Red Hat - Fedora Core 3 causing my problem.
>
>Based on Stephen's advice, I replaced the NIC in my machine, and
>behold... No more lag spikes.
>
>All the best,
>
>Owen (hapos)
>
>http://www.therubysquare.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Owen T. Soroke
>Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 2:18 PM
>To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com
>Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] Massive Lag Spikes
>
>Hi Ian,
>
>Thanks again for taking your time to respond.
>
>I have in fact been using top to check processes, and I am always
>running below 10% CPU when the lag spikes start and finish.
>
>Also, even though the pings in game show all clients around 900, when I
>ping the box from a machine on the same connection I am playing on
>(client side), I am getting response times under 80 ms.
>
>Traceroute to the server IP also shows under 100 ms responses.
>
>I am in British Columbia, and the server is in Minnesota, so 80-100ms
>is very normal for connection time.
>
>I think I am going to try installing FreeBSD 4.9 and see if that gives
>me the same results. What is your opinion?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Owen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian mu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 2:04 PM
>To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com
>Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Massive Lag Spikes
>
>That looks pretty ok really (have seen a few weird ones where some
>mobos seem to lead to odd video memory settings along with bios video
>ram setup was all and made me wonder if something similar was
>happening), have you tried running top at a higher rate and watching
>for the lag spikes to see if any process at all peaks at the same time?
>Just quite surprising not to see something sneaky going on somewhere.
>
>Do pings only sky in game, or do they when pinging from outside the
>game to the machine when it spikes?
>
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