Lag Fixed

[ZERO]

XP saving now no longer occurs every 60 seconds but on round end thus moving the lag to round end instead.

If you guys had reported this issue sooner I could have fixed it back whenever it actually started. Although it did take a few days to track down and then reprogramming the entire xp saving engine.

[taraN]

It still lags. Random lag spikes around every 2 mins.

[ZERO]

Was this just yesterday? Yesterday there was a lot of other things going on that should have been causing lag across all the servers.

[taraN]

Nah not just then, still random lag spikes even now.

[Passarelli]

Currently it lags at the end of the round, when someone joins the server, and when someone leaves the server (including placeholder bots).

Zero, would it be possible to make the XP file into an array? When a player joins, load that segment of the array and save it back to the master file at the end of every round? It might take some doing to convert the current file into an array, but it should help speed up the XP processing.

[ZERO]

It should lag at round end but It should no longer lag when a user leaves now. As for the joining I will look into that more.

I will also try to test moving the server to a different disk to see if that effects anything.

[ZERO]

Did some other changes, so lets see how the end round lag ect was effected.

[Passarelli]

It seems like there is a short burst (.5-1 second) as soon as the round ends, a second of no lag, then a slightly longer burst of lag (1-1.5 seconds).

There is still a lot of lag when someone joins or leaves the server, including bots.

[ZERO]

Dam, and I even moved us to a new HDD...

[ZERO]

What I am doing now is trying to convert the database to mysql and then host it remotely on the web server. This will not only offload the loading and holding of the database offsite but will also allow me to have more control over the database itself and possibly make optimizations to it and better understand what is going on within it in general.