Last night we had massive lag spikes, timeouts and servers crashing. This was TF2 only, because our other gameservers on the same machine (Killing-floor for example) were not affected.
Now I am getting really curious where this is coming from. Are there certain connections being build up to the steam backend, and if they fail or take a long time, can completely stall a server? anyone else noticed this? (last night being some 12 hours ago-ish) Saint K. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Valentin G. [[email protected]] Sent: 29 July 2011 00:50 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Unstable steam backend Yeah the item server seems to be unavailable for a huge part of the day. Really annoying. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Saint K. <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I was more referring to the login queue system, I don't have much > problems with the entire file downloading off steam. My client does a good > 6-7MBps, servers just tend to take a long time when an update hits, but with > everything on autoupdate I can't really be bothered by that. > > Was is annoying however is that you can't play your game properly without > being kicked, without loadout etc. > > Saint K. > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Drogen Viech > [[email protected]] > Sent: 28 July 2011 13:32 > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Unstable steam backend > > Leage of legends uses p2p to distribute game content, and the game > servers are directly hosted by them - no comparison to what valve > does (having their own content servers, using no p2p at all, just > providing a serverlist and some additional servers) > > 2011/7/28 Saint K. <[email protected]>: >> Maybe an interesting thing to think about. People who know the game League >> of Legends know what a free2play system can mean to your network load. Now I >> imagine VALVe's/steams network being massively larger, but still the influx >> of people seems to have a very negative effect on the steam backend >> stability. I am uncertain of course what's causing this, but perhaps this >> can be a tip. On LoL (afaik) paying players are being prioritized. Perhaps >> this is something to think of for TF2 as well - cause from what it looks >> like (specifically for loadsouts in peak hours) we're either getting queued >> or some general connection limit is set to prevent it from overloading. >> >> Saint K. >> ________________________________________ >> From: [email protected] >> [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Reinhold >> [[email protected]] >> Sent: 28 July 2011 12:55 >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Unstable steam backend >> >> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:07:20 +0200, Saint K. wrote: >>> From last night on the steam network has been incredibly unstable. >>> Servers dropping off quickplay, clients getting booted because either >>> no steam logon or VAC connection possible, load outs either not >>> available or taking ages to load. >>> >>> Anything up? >> >> I could post hundreds of lines of chatlog from users complaining, it >> would be nice to get an official statement of some sort. >> >> >> /Peter >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
