On join server lag

[BombSki]

Im having this rather irritating problem on both of my servers, namely huge lagspikes when someone joins the server (with or without downloading a map).
The servers both being climb servers makes this even worse, because usually people die 'en masse' when someone joins the server.

It happened when i was offline for 2 weeks, so Im not sure what causes it. the 2 servers are hosted at different locations (1 in USA (enesce) 1 in germany (quloa.de)). I was wondering which options in soldat.ini i could edit to decrease this kind of lag. Also im wondering what these options exactly do:

Internet_Connection=3
ShowRealLag=1
Compression=1
MaxConnections=12
TooMuch_Packets_LAN=62
TooMuch_Packets_Internet=33
Flooding_Packets_LAN=80
Flooding_Packets_Internet=37
PacketRate_Adjusting=0

Thanks in advance.

[EnEsCe]

Yeah I checked your server settings, its because you have a HUGE banned.txt file... I would recommend clearing it occasionally.

[FliesLikeABrick]

how huge?

[EnEsCe]

Hah look what I found...

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for i := 1 to 1000 do
  if CheckBannedIP(SrcIP) then
CheckbannedIP loops through your ban file which had 500'ish bans in it... So it looped 500,000 times haha.

[BombSki]

Where does that code come from? I didnt find it in my (network)core.pas
Thanks anyway, i hope removing the banned.txt works. Ill be offline for some time now but i would appreciate someone telling me what those options in soldat.ini are.

[Boglizk]

Where does that code come from? I didnt find it in my (network)core.pas
Thanks anyway, i hope removing the banned.txt works. Ill be offline for some time now but i would appreciate someone telling me what those options in soldat.ini are.

My guess is that its from the Soldat Server source

Anyways, that sortof sucks.. we have to choose between lag or ban. :/

[EnEsCe]

dw, its fixed in 2.6.2 and ive uploaded it to my client servers