Insane CPU Usage

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

... I did it once.

What was the script doing, anyway?

[Switch]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Well, besides the fact that there is no such thing as a "lag-intensive" script, I think you'd be hard pressed to make a script capable of pretty much crashing every single server on the machine you're on.

A script that causes extreme lag? And also I'm pretty sure Zodiac did that one time.

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

Unlikely, since it happens every day at the same time.

Originally Posted by Switch

And/or maybe a server is doing some lag-intensive script at that time.

Also, I didn't see that "backing-up" post, which seems likely as well.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Switch

A script that causes extreme lag? And also I'm pretty sure Zodiac did that one time.

"Lag" is not a resource, therefore a script cannot be lag-intensive.

[CharlieM]

Probably sloppy and/or poor scripting Perhaps everything is being commanded to start or do checks at the same time?

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

What was the script doing, anyway?

I don't quite remember. It was something along the lines of a huge loop in another huge loop doing excessive file .txt file manipulation. Took 25 minutes for the script to cancel itself, and during that time, I apparently lagged all servers (or so Bell stated, I went afk shopping food when I realized RC wasn't responding to me).

[Pelikano]

Originally Posted by xxziroxx

i don't quite remember. It was something along the lines of a huge loop in another huge loop doing excessive file .txt file manipulation. Took 25 minutes for the script to cancel itself, and during that time, i apparently lagged all servers (or so bell stated, i went afk shopping food when i realized rc wasn't responding to me).

LOL caps

[WhiteDragon]

I still think all the servers should be virtualized with Xen to avoid stuff like that; although, I don't know how powerful the hardware is over at Cyberjouers.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cloven

There's a massive lag issue at the same time daily on Delteria Dev as well. NC usually dies reliably at the same time along with it (or at the very least, does not work properly for a short period of time). In one instance I've actually had a script revert to an older version of itself without explanation. o_O

Generally though, scripts don't start using a lot of CPU time as reported by /stats (I've noticed it happening maybe 5 times, while the slowdowns have been happening for months).

The laglog on Delteria Dev for periods of slowdowns in the last day looks like so:

08/06/2009 05:34:32 - scripttime: 900 (players: 2, levels: 45, npcs: 95)
08/06/2009 05:32:29 - scripttime: 1600 (players: 2, levels: 43, npcs: 95)
08/06/2009 05:31:29 - scripttime: 1200 (players: 2, levels: 43, npcs: 95)
08/06/2009 05:29:24 - scripttime: 2000 (players: 2, levels: 42, npcs: 113)
08/06/2009 05:24:17 - scripttime: 2000 (players: 2, levels: 45, npcs: 95)
08/06/2009 05:21:11 - scripttime: 2400 (players: 2, levels: 52, npcs: 95)
08/06/2009 05:20:02 - scripttime: 4900 (players: 2, levels: 53, npcs: 95)
08/06/2009 05:18:01 - scripttime: 2100 (players: 2, levels: 52, npcs: 113)
08/05/2009 23:24:49 - scripttime: 3400 (players: 3, levels: 28, npcs: 77)
08/05/2009 23:23:49 - scripttime: 2000 (players: 3, levels: 27, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 23:22:26 - scripttime: 2200 (players: 3, levels: 30, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 23:21:16 - scripttime: 1500 (players: 3, levels: 30, npcs: 113)
08/05/2009 23:20:06 - scripttime: 600 (players: 3, levels: 28, npcs: 113)
08/05/2009 23:19:02 - scripttime: 300 (players: 3, levels: 28, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 23:17:48 - scripttime: 1100 (players: 3, levels: 31, npcs: 77)
08/05/2009 23:16:41 - scripttime: 600 (players: 3, levels: 31, npcs: 90)
08/05/2009 23:15:31 - scripttime: 300 (players: 3, levels: 29, npcs: 72)
08/05/2009 23:14:25 - scripttime: 800 (players: 3, levels: 29, npcs: 90)
08/05/2009 23:12:43 - scripttime: 1200 (players: 3, levels: 38, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 23:11:38 - scripttime: 900 (players: 3, levels: 42, npcs: 113)
08/05/2009 23:10:28 - scripttime: 400 (players: 3, levels: 44, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 23:09:19 - scripttime: 1100 (players: 3, levels: 49, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 23:08:13 - scripttime: 500 (players: 3, levels: 52, npcs: 77)
08/05/2009 23:07:02 - scripttime: 400 (players: 3, levels: 55, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 23:05:52 - scripttime: 300 (players: 3, levels: 55, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 23:04:50 - scripttime: 400 (players: 3, levels: 56, npcs: 77)
08/05/2009 23:03:26 - scripttime: 1100 (players: 3, levels: 56, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 05:33:17 - scripttime: 1000 (players: 1, levels: 46, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 05:32:16 - scripttime: 2400 (players: 1, levels: 46, npcs: 113)
08/05/2009 05:30:10 - scripttime: 3300 (players: 1, levels: 44, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 05:29:08 - scripttime: 3300 (players: 1, levels: 44, npcs: 113)
08/05/2009 05:24:57 - scripttime: 2100 (players: 1, levels: 46, npcs: 113)
08/05/2009 05:23:56 - scripttime: 2500 (players: 1, levels: 46, npcs: 113)
08/05/2009 05:21:49 - scripttime: 1100 (players: 1, levels: 50, npcs: 95)
08/05/2009 05:20:47 - scripttime: 2300 (players: 1, levels: 50, npcs: 11)

[xXziroXx]

It's happening right now, 00:15 GMT+1 on Maloria. Occuring for anyone else?

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

It's happening right now, 00:15 GMT+1 on Maloria. Occuring for anyone else?

Yep, our server just crashed on us.