*3 days later* LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAG

oh well hopefully it will be fixed soon or is this a good excuse to make people move to igraal

Never going to Iservers. o.o Kind of hard with no Idevices and just no.

idk change servers hosting lol thought how much cash flow there making they could afford there own servers to host it off of

Is graal down right now? there are some really bad lags and server issues going on

Any status on this after 18 days? people still complaining hardcore, is it sure its a network problem and not a ddos? era seems to get ddosed every night and it hurts zodiac because they share the same host server. !pissed!

I sent him (Stefan) an email last night, he said he would be looking into it today or tomorrow.

These 'lagging' moments have been strictly NPC-Server, while it's lagging we're still able to PM and chat on RC (functions handled by the GServer) though so either the 'hackers' are being more specific with their 'DDoS' or there's another problem altogether.

None the less it's getting very old.

Edit: According to Stefan, Era PC was doing some very intensive **** with objects resulting in almost 3 GB of RAM usage and plenty of timeouts when players aren't around.

3 GB of RAM
lolwat o_o

Maybe if we could have stefan online once in a while and tell us where the problems lie it would help out?

Hey look at that, my NC instantly connects again when I want it too. Used to take 30+ seconds for the past year or so. I blame it entirely on Era.

I think it'd be more realistic for Stefan to set up something to notify him when a specific server is hitting such values. If one server wants to lag itself into the ground whatever, but most servers are sharing with other machines so it's not really fair for other servers.

His email is [email protected]

Important things to check are pretty much anything that creates objects, classes with timeouts, anything with SQL (time your queries and see if some are slow). He said there was a bug in a house script that made classstr insanely huge whatever that means.

If you notice your server using over a GB of RAM (check /stats), savenpcs, npcshutdown, and npcstart again.

Definitely considering this feels like it happens too often.

hey i made a post in the forums Tech selection no one even applied to it discussing the lag
http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...hp?t=134268024

This is entirely possible, I found this kind of stuff on Era many times and often suspected it was impacting other servers. Usually it's an easy fix that's caused by something stupid. For example, one time the NPC that spawns trash on the overworld created thousands of NPCs joined to "" since it was using randomstring to decide which class to spawn, and somebody had removed all except one of the trash classes from the list (recall that randomstring (used to?) have a problem with lists with only one item).

The memstats commands Stefan added are very useful in finding these things if you can get the NPC-server responsive for long enough to investigate. I think in every case it ended up with too much memory being used and was seldom a CPU problem (even though that's the first place people usually look since the CPU time listing in stats is a little misleading if you don't understand it fully).

Stefan should really look into a way to limit the amount of memory a single server can use. At the very least, it should be very vocal when exceeding a certain threshold (when I first started on Era, it was usually using 1+ GB, when I left it was closer to 250 MB, at various times I've seen it up to 3+ GB).

Might need to add some more limits yes.

Just shut down era :p

Yes, shutdown the only PC server making him money :x