[madcap]

Originally Posted by bman87 I find that spamming the heartbeat command doesn't help really. Plus this will create more traffic on the master servers.

Agreed. If you've ever watched the output of your dedicated server you'll see it's already sending a heartbeat pretty regularly. I can't see this having much affect. Does anyone actually have any evidence that this helps?

[crazydog]

I put this plugin on my servers, and 6 of them have crashed today. Disabled it, and no crashes so far.

They always crash when the server is empty, but before the default map is reloaded. Methinks a heartbeat being sent after everyone leaves is causing a problem.

[egor1908]

Originally Posted by madcap Agreed. If you've ever watched the output of your dedicated server you'll see it's already sending a heartbeat pretty regularly. I can't see this having much affect. Does anyone actually have any evidence that this helps?

I do, if you just send a singe heartbeat to the master, this will not give much effect.
If you keep sending them every 15 sec, this is more ffective.

Originally Posted by crazydog I put this plugin on my servers, and 6 of them have crashed today. Disabled it, and no crashes so far. They always crash when the server is empty, but before the default map is reloaded. Methinks a heartbeat being sent after everyone leaves is causing a problem.

No crashes here. Mb a conflict?

[berni]

I hope this plugin really doesn't crash anything, approved Greetings ~Berni

[rockrerun]

been using this plugin for over a week, and it has helped a lot. Thank you very much!

[rappinduke]

Thank you for this plugin!! My server was ranked 250th when i installed this plugin just 2 short days ago and now has moved up to 170th!!

http://www.gametracker.com/server_in...242.151:27015/

Have had NO crashing problems at ALL!!

[egor1908]

This plugin is not working on Left 4 Dead 2.

I dont know about the server is sending heartbeats (the console says nothing), but when i try to execute heartbeat client-side, the game does not let me.

[crazydog]

Yes, when you try to heartbeat from a client it states:

Heartbeat is disabled (usually developer or cheats is on).

which is confusing, since developer and cheats are off in normal games. Probably just a bug.

egor: Are you looking directly at the server console, or through something like HLSW? If it's the former, there's really no response to the "heartbeat" command? That's surprising.

[egor1908]

Originally Posted by crazydog egor: Are you looking directly at the server console, or through something like HLSW? If it's the former, there's really no response to the "heartbeat" command? That's surprising.

I tried this on my second PC with both linux and win32 server. The console does not respond to the heartbeat command. When i type it, nothing happends.

And HLSW is not working with L4D2 - the game is being displayed like a HL2 mod, and since the server does not respond to LOG command, HLSW is useless here. The only thing you can do is sending commands - but you cant see the results. You can still kick people, but that's it.

[tryptonaut]

I look forward to Valve somehow fixing this in l4d2. In the mean time, I put this on my current server and although it doesn't work, it still gives people hope that they are doing something to get someone in the server ;D