Why they crash ?

[Leo]

My linux servers crash. 2-3 times a day they just crash. No errors no nothing, one moment they are there next moment they are gone. This happened at selfkill and it happens at my new host too. Why ? Do your servers run days without a crash ? Any ideas on what to do maybe not to completely fix it but at least to make it happen less often ? And I don't want to disable scripting because same thing happens even with scripting off.

[chrisgbk]

Try to have your servers run with actual logging, ie:

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./soldatserver > log.txt 2>&1 &disown
Most likely, you will be able to see the error then; and it's probably something along the lines of a segfault.

[FliesLikeABrick]

aha, good, I'm not alone.

Every single server I host crashes often, every day.  All 56 of them.


Leo, I have a hunch.  Does your server have dual cores or dual processors?


This only started happening to me in 1.4.1.

[Leo]

It's a Celeron at 3066 MhZ

[FliesLikeABrick]

Single core or dual?

[Leo]

Single, I am not going to start selling servers

[FliesLikeABrick]

I know, it was just a hunch

[Leo]

Well, I am just running servers and I can't know what causing this. Enesce must find the reason and fix it I suppose.

[chrisgbk]

Need excessive logging information to track things like this down; more information makes it more likely that the server can be put into a position where it can be induced to crash; if this happens it can be fixed.

[mar77a]

Servers with a lot of busy slots over a long period of time seem to crash much more often than servers with less slots and less usage.

[FliesLikeABrick]

Servers with a lot of busy slots over a long period of time seem to crash much more often than servers with less slots and less usage.

I've heard this from a few of my customers as well

[Leo]

Servers with a lot of busy slots over a long period of time seem to crash much more often than servers with less slots and less usage.

True, my gather server with 8 slots and not so much usage never crash. Same with any of my 16 slots server if it runs with a few players. Servers crash only if they are full and busy.

[mar77a]

Oh and also, I have scripting disabled.

[urraka]

I'm running a server on Windows. It has never crashed before (except when i messed up with scripts), but today it crashed showing one of that ugly and useless error message boxes, and the server was empty. No idea why that happened.

[FliesLikeABrick]

what ugly and useless messages?

[HEX]

Yes, I have this problem too.
Some of my servers just get crashed one time per week. It runs on Windows.

[EnEsCe]

I'd give some input into this but I cant really. My servers can run for almost a week and not crash, my TW servers which are always full only restart about once every 3 days.

And yeah, need logging. All errors ARE outputted into the console, there is never a crash with no error message.

[urraka]

what ugly and useless messages?

I guess it was an memory access violation message.

@EnEsCe: no error was outputted on the console, i checked the logs too. It just closed as if i had used ctrl+alt+del

[EnEsCe]

Well then its an external error caused by something else other than the server's coding

[chrisgbk]

what ugly and useless messages?

I guess it was an memory access violation message.

@EnEsCe: no error was outputted on the console, i checked the logs too. It just closed as if i had used ctrl+alt+del

If you're running on windows, don't start the binary directly, start it from cmd.exe. Windows closes console program windows when they terminate, whether they did it properly or not. You can see this if you deliberately put bad data into soldat.ini; the server will flash on the screen then disappear. Starting it from cmd.exe allows you to see what errors occur, and note that not all errors are logged to the log files, simply because certain conditions cause the OS to terminate the application directly, bypassing error catching.