SRCDS random lockup when plugins are enabled - Page 2

DataMatrix · 07-16-2007 , 11:21 Re: SRCDS random lockup when plugins are enabled

I'll run Mani on SourceMM a little while later and tell you the results.

devicenull · 07-16-2007 , 15:48 Re: SRCDS random lockup when plugins are enabled

Are you running the official version of srcds, and not any modified (no steam) versions?

DataMatrix · *Last edited by DataMatrix; 07-17-2007 at 01:45.*

Basically: I have two servers running:

One 16 player Zombie Master with Mani alone.
One 8 player Zombie Master with Mani running by SourceMM (this server I tested with SourceMM).

The first server runs on the 1st CPU core
The second server runs on the 2nd CPU core.

The first server has been running since I last restarted it a few days ago.
The second server crashed sometime last night when players were in the server and hogged the 2nd core to 100% CPU utilisation

When the crash happened, the other server was affected also, pings were high, loss was through the roof. It was almost impossible to log on via Remote Desktop to shut the crashing server down, but when I did, everything returned to normal.

BAILOPAN · 07-17-2007 , 01:47 Re: SRCDS random lockup when plugins are enabled

Was Mani the only plugin running?

DataMatrix · *Last edited by DataMatrix; 07-17-2007 at 02:53.*

Edit: Sorry I misread your post, Mani was the only plugin running on SourceMM.

BAILOPAN · 07-17-2007 , 09:17 Re: SRCDS random lockup when plugins are enabled

Well, I don't know what to tell you. I've never heard of a report like that before. And I can tell you that Mani's Metamod versus non-Metamod code is nearly identical, and his non-Metamod code simply embeds the same engine that Metamod does. Maybe it's a peculiar thing about Mani and Zombie Mod.

If you can get a crash dump/memory image/callstack of any sort we can go further, but that's hard to do with a win2k3 lockup unless you have Microsoft Debugging Tools installed. I can type out a quick guide to doing that if you'd like.

(Of course, if it's a problem with Mani, there's not much we can do.)

PureSpider · 07-17-2007 , 10:34 Re: SRCDS random lockup when plugins are enabled

i have the same crashes on my Win 2k3 Platinum Server and as far as i can say it's a memory problem (not enough ram)
when the system runs out of ram while running SRCDS the server locks just up insted of crashing

@ BAILOPAN: does SourceMM use much ram?

BAILOPAN · 07-18-2007 , 02:43 Re: SRCDS random lockup when plugins are enabled

Metamod:Source doesn't use any memory unless a plugin requests it.

Unfortunately that diagnosis doesn't make a huge amount of sense; if someone wants to install Microsoft's Debugging Tools for Windows on their server I can walk you through generating a memory dump.

DataMatrix · 07-18-2007 , 18:17 Re: SRCDS random lockup when plugins are enabled

There is no problem with mani, it happens with any plugin or with SourceMM loaded alone.

My server has 2GB ram and is over 1GB free so that isn't a prob for me. But Mani works fine when its working alone.