I'm running replays on three servers 24/7 and haven't received complaints. We've been using them since released and haven't turned them off besides for the FTP bug at the beginning with threads.
That's maybe a difference -- we are using a FTP offload server. Are you? We clean up the FTP server nightly deleting replays over 14 days old. On Sunday, May 11, 2014, Erik-jan Riemers <riem...@binkey.nl> wrote: > We dont have any issues either here, but we just have a crontab cleaning > old files at night when nobody is playing (makes more sense to me too) > > > 2014-05-11 12:30 GMT+02:00 Valentin G. <nextra...@gmail.com <javascript:;> > >: > > > We've had no such issues and we are manually cleaning up the replay > > files with some find commands. We haven't changed that from way back > > when the auto cleanup was completely broken and I haven't heard of any > > similar complaints. > > You may want to give that a shot. > > > > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:16 PM, ics <i...@ics-base.net> wrote: > > > Ever since the guy who created replay on Valve moved on from TF2, the > > replay > > > system has been laid off and just kept as it is. There were some bugs > > left > > > in, such as replays not always getting deleted automatically and now > > > propably this where replays are deleted when noticed that they should > be > > but > > > removing them happens at bad time. This could explain the random lags > on > > > roud starts we've been having. > > > > > > I do clear up replay dirs occasionally manually but not recently. I > will > > > disable replay if this keeps up. > > > > > > > > > -ics > > > > > > Yun Huang Yong kirjoitti: > > >> > > >> Further info -- I observe that the two problems in the OP are > > correlated. > > >> > > >> During a recent pause I repeatedly looked at the replay directory and > > >> observe that the server deleted replays that it had just finished. > > >> > > >> Specifically: > > >> - we were on cp_dustbowl > > >> - there were multiple block files corresponding to the round just > > >> finished > > >> - at the start of the next round, we had a 20 second pause > > >> - during that 20 second pause, *all* of the block files for the > round > > >> just past were deleted > > >> > > >> We only keep 7 days worth of replays so it's a little baffling what > it's > > >> doing in any case -- stat()ing and unlinking ~10 files shouldn't take > 20 > > >> seconds. > > >> > > >> I had these settings: > > >> > > >> replay_data_lifespan "7" > > >> replay_dofileserver_cleanup_on_start "1" > > >> > > >> Now commented out. Will have to wait for overnight restart of server > > >> (people are playing) to see it fixes things. > > >> > > >> Are there any other settings related to cleanup that I should disable? > > >> > > >> ics, do you have similar settings for cleanup? > > >> > > >> On 11/05/2014 6:34 PM, Erik-jan Riemers wrote: > > >>> > > >>> 15/20 seconds does not seem to sound like any "io" issues, since it > is > > >>> just > > >>> on round start, maybe its even some dns lookup that goes bad? (just > > >>> thinking out loud here) you could fix/found out by installing bind9, > > >>> point > > >>> your resolv.conf to it and placing it into debug mode to see the > logs. > > >>> (google for instructions, you can just let it forward to your regular > > dns > > >>> servers was like 5 minutes work) you never know! > > >>> > > >>> Also check your sysctl.conf if there are not strange "additions" to > it, > > >>> highly doubt there could be anything in there that would screw it > up... > > >>> but > > >>> again just throwing it out there. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> 2014-05-11 9:36 GMT+02:00 Yun Huang Yong <gumby_li...@mooh.org>: > > >>> > > >>>> Oh wow. For us it's happening across both of our 24p servers (we > only > > >>>> have > > >>>> 2). > > >>>> > > >>>> And over the last few months it's gone from happening occasionally > > for a > > >>>> few seconds, to happening on 80% of round changes, for 15-20 > seconds. > > >>>> > > >>>> That suggests it may be related to something that might be growing > > with > > >>>> time but I prune the replays directly externally so there's never > more > > >>>> than > > >>>> 7 days worth of files. > > >>>> > > >>>> Do you run any of the following? > > >>>> - Sou _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
