[hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Chris Oryschak
Anyone ever have problems with their TF2 server + on map change it takes a long time. I'm running the server off a rented box so my access is limited but when I look at the server logs here is what I find: L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: "tv_relaypassword" = "" L 02/14/2010 - 13:24:05: "tv_password" =

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Cc2iscooL
What provider? Likely they either are overselling or limiting disk i/o or ram usage per process which is causing maploads to take a while. I would get in touch with the provider. Also you could try disabling all plugins and test clean but its more likely its a disk or ram issue. On Feb 14, 2010 3:

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Chris Oryschak
I'm with art of war central, I have tried disabling all plugins, doing a fresh install and it still seems to arise. -Original Message- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Cc2iscooL Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 4:40 PM To: H

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Cc2iscooL
Contact your provider. On Feb 14, 2010 3:48 PM, "Chris Oryschak" wrote: I'm with art of war central, I have tried disabling all plugins, doing a fresh install and it still seems to arise. -Original Message- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valv... ___

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Joshua 'Dislexsick' Bost
I'm agreeing, contact the provider. It will pay to send them a log like that after a clean install. Sent from my iPhone On 15/02/2010, at 8:17 AM, "Chris Oryschak" wrote: > I'm with art of war central, I have tried disabling all plugins, > doing a > fresh install and it still seems to aris

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Andrew Armstrong
We've experienced this with other source based games when we listed 'exec banned.cfg' in our server config file, when the banned.cfg contained hundreds of ban entries. Remove this command from your server.cfg if its present, just execute it once on the command line. Regards, Andrew -Original

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Chris Oryschak
Yeah I google searched and came across that what you describe. I don't load any banned ip's from a cfg so this won't be the issue, I use sourcemod to manage my bans which, at the moment is empty. I put a support call in and got a response back saying that it's a "bug on the server unfortunately"

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Cc2iscooL
That's kind of an unacceptable response with how much you pay for AoW servers. How long are the mapchanges? On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Chris Oryschak wrote: > Yeah I google searched and came across that what you describe. > I don't load any banned ip's from a cfg so this won't be the issu

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Andrew Armstrong
If you can, disable all plugins etc and see if anything speeds up. Try a vanilla config file too. Servers changing maps may be slow because its stuck reading from disk; but a few minutes sounds excessive. When we had 1000 entries in our banlists it only took an extra 30 seconds or so to load the

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Chris Oryschak
It varies, I'm running stock configs, with no sourcemod installed (renamed addons dir) and fastest I've gotten was 13seconds and longest is about 2mins. It's extremely noticeable when going from a good working server to mine. Even the 13seconds until you start to see the map loading on the client

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Perhaps the server's disk is stuffed / too slow / overloaded (reading the map from hard disk etc). Maybe try somewhere else, I wouldn't accept "its a bug in the server" as a reason (because it isnt). - Andrew -Original Message- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun.

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread Cc2iscooL
I kind of doubt it'll help. It may change the load times a little, maybe a second or two at best, but it's more likely that something is eating the disk I/O or there's a problem with the box itself. I'd either request a box change or a refund for slow map loading times and unsatisfactory support.

Re: [hlds] TF2 Long Map Change

2010-02-14 Thread 1nsane
In my experience, when it comes to shared game server hosting, slow map loads usually mean lack of free ram. Game servers don't write that much to a disk (log files and such) to bog it down to a point that it will take 2 minutes to load a map. I mean after updates when 4 of my servers start (at t

[hlds] Php echo server vars (hostname, players, etc)

2010-02-14 Thread Jake Eisenman
Hey all Does anyone know of a PHP or similar script to grab variables from a server like hostname, maxplayers, current players and possibly names of players online? I figure there has to be one out there I just can't find it. If it matters the game is CSS Thanks Sent from my iPod ___

Re: [hlds] Php echo server vars (hostname, players, etc)

2010-02-14 Thread Kornelijus Survila
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Server_queries#Implementations On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Jake Eisenman wrote: > Hey all > Does anyone know of a PHP or similar script to grab variables from a > server like hostname, maxplayers, current players and possibly names > of players online

Re: [hlds] Php echo server vars (hostname, players, etc)

2010-02-14 Thread Matt Lyons
On 15/02/2010, at 5:14 PM, Jake Eisenman wrote: > Hey all > Does anyone know of a PHP or similar script to grab variables from a > server like hostname, maxplayers, current players and possibly names > of players online? > I figure there has to be one out there I just can't find it. > > If it