Server Help

BlueGoku

So HZ recently changed our server, we're being hosted on one of priitk's servers now. It's a Windows NT service pack 1 machine. For some reason we've been experiencing many, many crashes. There are absolutely no differences in the server folder we have on priit's machine and the one we have on our other server, so the only thing I could think of is the machine missing DLL's. We're not getting any traces on the crashes, and I don't have remote desktop.

Priitk has an auto-restarter script going, so if the crash might be causing a popup (which I think may be case, because it takes about 30 seconds for the server to come back up most of the time) it won't hang.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Are you sure it's not saying NT 5 SP1? That would be XP.
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BlueGoku · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject:

Priit suspects it's a multi-cpu problem, so we're back on our old server until we can figure it out.

Smong · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure why a missing dll would make it crash sometime after it has loaded.

There are already a few threads on asss crashing when a player enters an arena (possibly when an arena is created). However this problem has not happened to me on linux.

Animate Dreams · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject:

You know, if it was simply a multi CPU problem, I think it would be easy enough to change the affinity of the process to find out for sure. I've had lots of problems with my multicore processor that I could fix by changing the affinity to one core. Well, then I found out about the /usepmtimer fix and AMD's hotfix, and I haven't had problems since, but I'm pretty sure ANY multi processor issue can be taken care of, at least temporarily, by changing the affinity.