Connection lost- Server lost- build 342

TIG_green said:
I crashed when I was in a server with Ring Tourist and multiple cars (due to alt+tab and then trying to get back). When I came back to the server some perople were missing and many names were duplicated (down right hand corner that showed times).

But this time server didn't dissapear at least. (or crashed, only rf2 crashed)
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It sounds like that one is unrelated to what others are talking about (or rather, they are unrelated to your OP). Duplicates were possibly due to people being replaced by AI. If you discount your client crash (which I think you are describing), what happened to the server only?
 
Tim Wheatley said:
It sounds like that one is unrelated to what others are talking about (or rather, they are unrelated to your OP). Duplicates were possibly due to people being replaced by AI. If you discount your client crash (which I think you are describing), what happened to the server only?
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Not sure I understand your question. But my point was that I didn't have the problem descriped in OP this time around but had other weird problems...
 
Well right now ISR's Megane server has 18 drivers. I am going to spectate and see if it runs more than 20mins. I am also curious if it is actually the plugin causing the crash. It would be nice to get some details from the others who have this problem.
 
Noel Hibbard said:
Well right now ISR's Megane server has 18 drivers. I am going to spectate and see if it runs more than 20mins. I am also curious if it is actually the plugin causing the crash. It would be nice to get some details from the others who have this problem.
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It's frankly weird for it to be timed to 20mins. That leads me to believe it's something external as well, but we have to wait and see I guess. There would appear to be a very low rate of this happening judging from the feedback.
 
I think there is a little confusion in this thread too because there have been two problems discussed. One is the fact that the Matchmaker wasn't returning a full list every refresh (this problem seams to be fixed now) and the other problem is servers hanging after 20mins.

I got this PM from gagipro:
Hi Noel,

We've got huge problems here with the latest build.

The servers keep disappearing and worst. Dedicated Servers hangs after 20 minutes.

There's a thread on the forum :

http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/16856-Connection-lost-Server-lost-build-342

The server keeps hanging randomly, it wasn't happening with the previous 300 build.

The problem is that the LDDT league is organising their chamionship last wednesday and it hanged on LDDT League's server for the 3 leagues who were participating in this champ' (20 guys).

I asked for a test running 20 people on my league server : it hanged after 20 minutes
Then I asked for the same test on another league who was present for this event : and it hanged on their server too.
Then I asked for the same test again but running the previous event (another track & same car) : it hanged

really strange since build 342.

Do you know something about such a problem ?
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Tim Wheatley said:
Thanks for that info. And you're saying that every 20mins it happens, or 20mins into the session? 20mins into practice, race, or any session? What if you switch session at 10mins, does the crash happen 10mins into the second session?
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Thank's Tim for support.

but I'm all alone on the server, if there are more drivers on the server.
I think he would have planted, this is why for 3 days, there is no problem but as soon as it is the evening of the race.
The server does not crash when I change the session.
I should ask you join the server and have at least 6 people.
I'm sure it crash,


EDIT : It was believed that the resolution of the matchmaker, had solved the problem. But eventually the matchmaker has nothing to do
 
Hi Tim and Noel, all,

I'm the admin of the other league who did test with Valbuena & mimic's league.

I didn't had the liveracer plugin running and the same happened.

What else do you need?

We tried first with T5 mod but I asked the LDDT league to test with Mills on Clio.

What else do you need?

It's not a problem with your matchmaker ?

I don't know what else to say? We tried with 2 leagues (3 different servers with 3 different ISPs 3 different hardware and 3 software conf, I was running windows 8, the LDDT was running windows server 2008R2, I don't know yet for the EUROSIM LEAGUE but Vabuena or Steeve will give this info, so that's not server or config related, perhaps the way the mod is made?
 
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gagipro said:
It's not a problem with your matchmaker ?
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Once your race is started, the Matchmaker has nothing to do with a server anymore. The server could go offline and your race would finish fine. The matchmaker can't cause a server to crash like that.

If your server is crashing every time you reach 6 people, then it sounds like you have some limit caused by having more than 6. Is that the same number for everyone? Same reason for everyone? And how many people are we actually talking about here? So far is seems to be an oddly local issue.
 
Tim & Other Driver
Is that you can make a test server (on our windows server 2008 R2 STANDARD) then you connected you and other players?
Just say one hour and can be found on the server (depending on availability of each)
I can make a video dedicated server
I said six players, but this is more or less variable Tim.
Should really try.
Even better, if you have time. Log on to TeamSpeak (it was a guy who speaks good English). Here after, I find it odd that this problem is not isolated
 
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yes Ok but the previous week and in general with the BUILD 300 we had no problem of this type.

yes on the 3 leagues servers it hanged after about 20 minutes and with between 6 and 20 people. Not the same number for eveyone. Same reason : well I'm not a dev :)

We're talking about 3 leagues that cannot organise events anymore since build 342.

And I said : perhaps it is french people related : no clue
 
Valbuena72 said:
Tim & Other Driver
Is that you can make a test server (on our windows server 2008 R2 STANDARD) then you connected you and other players?
Just say one hour and can be found on the server (depending on availability of each)
I can make a video dedicated server
I said six players, but this is more or less variable Tim.
Should really try.
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Joining your server to crash doesn't show anything but that your server crashes. We test with higher numbers and we do fine, as do most other users it seems. What I am trying to find out, is what is different with your server, not what is the same. :)

I think I have enough info to be able to pass on now, thanks.
 
gagipro said:
yes Ok but the previous week and in general with the BUILD 300 we had no problem of this type.

yes on the 3 leagues servers it hanged after about 20 minutes and with between 6 and 20 people. Not the same number for eveyone. Same reason : well I'm not a dev :)

We're talking about 3 leagues that cannot organise events anymore since build 342.

And I said : perhaps it is french people related : no clue
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Thanks.
 
Tim Wheatley said:
Joining your server to crash doesn't show anything but that your server crashes. We test with higher numbers and we do fine, as do most other users it seems. What I am trying to find out, is what is different with your server, not what is the same. :)

I think I have enough info to be able to pass on now, thanks.
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Thank's for support Tim
We no longer believed ;)
 
Tim,

We can organise a live test as said Valbuena, i'm able to translate french-english. Here it's 22h45 to have an idea. It´s possible to find I think 10 guys for another time, let´s say between 20-21h tomorrow for example.

If you got a dev or tech engineer available?

We've got Teamspeak and can prepare a mod of your choice for the test. We can have at least my league "ATCHOOM"'s dedicated and "LDDT"'s dedi too.

Awaiting news from you,
Thank you very much for your help.
 
Well I just watched a 15min race with 21 drivers on the ISR server. Not quite 20mins but it didn't crash and this server has been on a track rotation for a while. I will contact the admin to see if uptime on 342 has gone down for them.
 
Another idea can be ISI setup a dedi for a test, we all try to connect attempting to reproduce an hypothetic crash ?
 
As some have noted (Tim ,Noel, etc (sorry if I missed others)) During the matchmaker change this week we noticed a problem that caused servers to always be added as new instead of just updating. That should be fixed.

So moving on to the crash. Right now, with all the varying reports, it looks random to me (even though it may not be, I just do not see a concrete, or even a shifting sand, pattern right that will reproduce the crash.

Tomorrow I will shut down our current test OS/Server and start up a Windows 2012. I would go ahead and do it now but we are running an internal test as I write this. I am install complies and debuggers now. I will post the server name once it is running. Then try to crash it.
 
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