NS2 Combatmod server is unplayable over 18-20 players

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Hi guys, I first want to thank you for hosting NS2 servers. But there is a problem. The server cannot handle when more then 18 players are connected. Serious lag, rubber banding, everyone's pings jump up to insane numbers, red plug of death every 5-10 seconds.. it really is horrible, the server is not even close to handling this load. Also I can assure you it is not my PC performance I regularly play on a few other servers with no issues at all, and when this happens I see everyone else in the server typing complaints about lag into chat. But nobody seemed to ever post anything on here so I figured you guys would like to know!

It has been like this for months. I keep trying your server in hopes that it gets better because it is usually the closest combat server to my location, and as you know ping is critical in NS2. But if anything it has gotten worse even though other servers seem to have gotten better with the newer patches.

As a former CS:S server admin who struggled with performance issues, it feels like CPU induced choke to me. My suggestion is to lower the max player count to 18 until you (or UWE?) can resolve the performance issues. You also may want to look into the server mods, its possible one of those is leaching CPU time.

i haven't been seeing any issues recently. zero recently upgraded the box...pretty extensively actually. almost completely eliminated lag and problems on the NS2 server.

[ZERO]

Apparently there was a lot of lag for some reason only at the time of this post: http://ns2servers.devicenull.org/ser...7.194.21:27015

Also for comparison this is what lag does look like: http://ns2servers.devicenull.org/ser...10%2F16%2F2013

I have been told by some people that work on combat mod that there is major problems with the way that combat mod does respawn which makes it super laggy. Basically in rare occasions the respawn wave can eat the server for a short time due to these calculations (doing multi point raytracking b/c they do not cach values and run distance checks across vectors instead)

Lastly server side lag like it always has will result in tick drops but what you are describing is major network lag on the client side with red plug of death...

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Apparently there was a lot of lag for some reason only at the time of this post: http://ns2servers.devicenull.org/ser...7.194.21:27015

Also for comparison this is what lag does look like: http://ns2servers.devicenull.org/ser...10%2F16%2F2013

I have been told by some people that work on combat mod that there is major problems with the way that combat mod does respawn which makes it super laggy. Basically in rare occasions the respawn wave can eat the server for a short time due to these calculations (doing multi point raytracking b/c they do not cach values and run distance checks across vectors instead)

Lastly server side lag like it always has will result in tick drops but what you are describing is major network lag on the client side with red plug of death...

didn't the combat mod team end development of the mod?