I have recently noticed that this week, boomer seems to be spiking quite alot, and today it seemed to be quite bad :sad: is this happening to everyone or just a few of us?
Or did perhaps someone follow the white rabbit....... and took the red pill instead of the blue ? :rolleyes:, I suspect bullet time has been used :g:
I don't know if this has been brought to anyones attention btw ???
LFS has been almost unplayable at times this past week. :sad:
Time to get the PingPlotter out chaps.
Tried playing with Sith just then, serious Lag Spikes. Every 5 minutes or so, become more frequent after that and lasting longer. :sideways:
Quote from: Exodus;188536Tried playing with Sith just then, serious Lag Spikes. Every 5 minutes or so, become more frequent after that and lasting longer. :sideways:
I've stopped playing on Boomer because of lag. It's so annoying, you can't get a proper game in...
(And I feel the need to play on other stuff.)
I've experienced some major lag spikes here at the forum as well from time to time during the last days. Don't know if it's located on the same (or a closely related) server as the gaming servers, or if it's just a coincident...
I've definitely noticed lag spikes on Boomer, as have others who mention "Big lag spikezor" when it does. It actually doesn't bother me too much, but it's unpredictable and happens sometimes in important fire-fights.
The other day I did have a big lagspike while on Boomer.
A few pingplots might be usefull yes...
Quote from: Bob;188549I've experienced some major lag spikes here at the forum as well from time to time during the last days. Don't know if it's located on the same (or a closely related) server as the gaming servers, or if it's just a coincident...
:withstupid:
The game servers, TS and forums/website are hosted on to 3 diferent servers, so a broadly experienced problem is not going to be down to hardware. In particular the game servers are run on our best box and from the server performance logs nothing is spiking at all or even coming close to full CPU utilisation. We have extremely high quality hardware and we do not believe our server hardware it is the source of the problem.
The Admins have been running pingplotters and other diagnostic tools for a couple of weeks now and the one thing we can say with absolute confidence is that our server is not spiking. The wierd thing is that the net connection also seems to looks fine during these spikes. If you have data then please post it, the more the merrier as they say as it can only help us identify the issue.
Rest assured we're already on the case and looking for the source of the problem and its resolution.
TL.
The lag spikes (or whatever they are) have been quite bad for the last couple of days on Boomer.
The game just freezes for up to 10 seconds, then suddenly it's back to normal.
It did it at least twice yesterday evening.
I was relieved to find that it had happened to everyone as I thought my graphics cards were overheating again (dust).
It was fine for me when I was on on Monday night. Strange.
Quote from: Lee;188553[...] as have others who mention "Big lag spikez0r" when it does.
*raises hand*
Quote from: TeaLeaf;188596[...] and the one thing we can say with absolute confidence is that our server is not spiking.
Now seriously, it cant be that the server's not spiking, I mean, everybody is getting that thing at the same time. And it's become more frequent as of late, with longer pauses each time it happens. If this keeps going, we'll be losing quite a few potencial new regulars.
Also, I don't know if this might be related at all, but I've been getting some really high pings lately, even though it seems to have gotten better since yesterday. :g:
BK, the servers are really looked out for. Believe me.
We give serverfunding and with that money we get servers and such but we also have people like Gandy and so who check them out aswell.
If TL says stuff like that, I wouldn't dare doubting...
What ISPs are the people who are having issues on? As I said, it was fine for me on Monday, and I trust TL etc to know whether or not the server itself is spiking, but IIRC TL etc are on Hi-Velocity, who also host the servers. Is there a possiblity that some transit ISP that traffic is passing across for a lot of people is having trouble with their peering with Hi-V? It could be that Force9 (who i'm with) either directly peer with Hi-V or use a different transit ISP (I thought there were only a few though, and that they were *very* big), hence my connection seems fine.
As a basic run down i get the same as blunt. Now i have been doing random pingplots for the last year or so and the switches seem to be the problem in hi-v or something linking us to the server. I was getting some red boxes and high slides to the right with regard to a ping plot to boomer and to deadmen.co.uk. Anyway I'm on NTL or virgin media (4meg poole exchange) and i will just do a ping plot and work out which has been the culprit before. Also i have been getting about 10 choke at times of intense game play with 2 at idle. Other members however have been getting very high choke rates as seen before in other threads.
If you can get me some pingplotter files uploaded here so I have some info to pass onto the transit suppliers I'll get this issue looked at.
Ok as you can see my ends fine it bulges around hi-v
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g251/GhostMjr/untitled2.jpg)
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g251/GhostMjr/untitled-1.jpg)
Boomer
(http://uk.geocities.com/bluntphilly@btopenworld.com/pingplot1.JPG)
(http://uk.geocities.com/bluntphilly@btopenworld.com/pingplot2.JPG)
I won't pretend to know what it means:blink:
//www.deadmen
(http://uk.geocities.com/bluntphilly@btopenworld.com/pingplot3.JPG)
(http://uk.geocities.com/bluntphilly@btopenworld.com/pingplot4.JPG)
that's great. keep em coming. I'll get the details passed on.
Quote from: =|B ° K|=;188653Now seriously, it cant be that the server's not spiking, I mean, everybody is getting that thing at the same time.
As I said, given that we use up to 3 different servers for our community the probability of it being our hardware simultaneously and intermittenlty going on strike is remote. Anyway, I think there has been more than enough information posted above for you to read and see that other explanations are far more likely, like the routing. One instance of a CSS server or LFS server runnning on separate NICs on our dual Opteron 265 server with 4GB of RAM is not going to spike it. Windows used more CPU than CSS does! :wink:
TL.
Quote from: TeaLeaf;188690Anyway, I think there has been more than enough information posted above for you to read and see that other explanations are far more likely, like the routing.
TL.
That won't really help much, considering the fact that I have absolutely no idea what all that stuff means. But if you are sure that the place is not spiking, I have complete trust in your word.
hope this helps :)
(http://eis.bris.ac.uk/%7Ebm8746/files/pingplots/boomer1.png)
...and...
(http://eis.bris.ac.uk/%7Ebm8746/files/pingplots/boomer2.png)
...and...
(http://eis.bris.ac.uk/%7Ebm8746/files/pingplots/forum1.png)
Another one
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/squonk_steve//photos/untitled.JPG)
I hope this this helps and that I've done it correctly :flirty:
(If there's something to do with this let me know :D)
Deadmen.co.uk
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x45/mikhael_exodus/Random%20Pics/Pingplot-Deadmen.png)
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x45/mikhael_exodus/Random%20Pics/Pingplot-Deadmen2.png)
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x45/mikhael_exodus/Pingplot-Deadmen2.png)
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x45/mikhael_exodus/Pingplot-Deadmen.png) Boomer:
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x45/mikhael_exodus/Random%20Pics/BoomerPP.png)
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x45/mikhael_exodus/BoomerPP.png)
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x45/mikhael_exodus/BoomerPP2.png)(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x45/mikhael_exodus/Random%20Pics/BoomerPP2.png)
I have no idea what this means either :blink:
I don't understand it either. :blink: Funnily enough i'm on NTL too, its only started happening the past week or so, and my choke has gone down now. o_O
I'm with BT and am experiencing the lag spikes as well.
How does one make them fancy plots? i might have a crack at em myselfs too. :)
Quote from: Bastet;189010How does one make them fancy plots? i might have a crack at em myselfs too. :)
If you take a look at the bottom of each of those images, you'll see the text
"Data and Image generated by PingPlotter 2.60 (http://www.pingplotter.com)"... That might give you a small clue :narnar:
Mwha, i was like PICTURE! who cares about words anyway? :sideways:
Here is a trace from Friday night. Guys are getting a lot of lag but server and router are showing as OK. However note all the congestion in and around the London routers.
3 spikes tonight.. longest lasted about 10 sec. the next two were around 5
Ok last night was on the lfs server till pretty late and it kept loosing connection and jumping us off. Anyway went on a minute a go and was playing for a good 20 minutes and it died again. Also the forum died too. For logging purposes this was 18:02
Many lag spikes just a few minutes ago whilst playing on Boomer. Not sure if this helps but I did some PPing whilst playing on it:
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x45/mikhael_exodus/Random%20Pics/Boomer.png)
Could someone show how to interpret this data and what it means?
Yup. Same old culprits :(
As you can see server is fine. The admin team are currently investigating ways of improving this situation and we'll post more info once we have it.