Server: Network message XXXXXX is pending

[Brutus]

Since the server moved to mod 1.0.4.2 the arma2oaserver.RPT spawned with those error 

and getting constant come and go yellow and red chain

 

What's the problem and what to do for fixing this?

 

 

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94b1 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94d8 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94d9 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94da is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94db is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94dc is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94dd is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94de is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94df is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e0 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e1 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e2 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e3 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e4 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e5 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e6 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e7 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e8 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e8 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e8 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94e9 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94ea is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94eb is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94ec is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94ed is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94ed is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94ee is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94ef is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94f0 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94f1 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94f2 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94f3 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94f4 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94f5 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94f6 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94f7 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94f8 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94f9 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94fa is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94fa is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94fa is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94fb is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94fc is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94fd is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94fe is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d94ff is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9500 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9501 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9502 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9503 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9504 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9505 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9505 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9506 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9507 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9508 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9509 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d950a is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d950b is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d950c is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d950d is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d950e is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d950f is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9510 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9511 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9512 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9513 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9514 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9515 is pending

14:07:51 Server: Network message 8d9516 is pending

[Joeyy]

What exactly does "-world=empty" and "-noCB" do?

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA:_Startup_Parameters

-world= Select a world loaded by default, e.g. -world=Sara
-world=empty (for faster game loading.. no island and no menu animation loaded (1.05))

-noCB turns off multicore drawing, slow down rendering but may resolve visual glitches (Arma2)

[Scaramanga]

Server FPS at peak is 15fps on Cherno

Intel Xeon 8 core, 32gb ram, 2tb raid 0

This blew my mind :o . You have like 5 times my FPS at 50 players with pretty much same server specs, basic.cfg and startup parameters. You also have twice my amount of objects. I have 2 unraided SSDs for disks (one for OS and game and one for DB), but I can't imagine that would be so much worse. I tried removing all addons but this didn't help much.

Feels like I'm missing something essential.

What OS are you running?

Do you have any server.cfg tweaks?

Do you have any my.ini tweaks?

Running RAMdisk?

 

Any tips would be greatly appreciated since all this tweaking is giving me grey hair.

[cen]

I agree that sounds nuts Dave...

 

This is what I'm used to :D

 

Line 885: 14:44:49 "DEBUG FPS : 3.81862"

Line 1170: 14:49:50 "DEBUG FPS : 3.54925"

Line 1359: 14:54:51 "DEBUG FPS : 3.09418"

Line 1565: 14:59:52 "DEBUG FPS : 2.76769"

Line 1796: 15:04:53 "DEBUG FPS : 2.83386"

Line 2088: 15:09:55 "DEBUG FPS : 2.69496"

Line 2342: 15:14:57 "DEBUG FPS : 2.63201"

Line 2552: 15:19:58 "DEBUG FPS : 2.849"

[MGT]

I'm permanantly tweaking!

[Adminlaststand]

I'm permanantly tweaking!

or twerking ><

[hambeast]

 

Just posting our basic.cfg we are having success with.

 

In a 3 hour restart period it's around 600-700kb with 7k items in database and constant 50 players. Paste this in and on restart the latitude and longtitude are automatically inserted. MaxCustomFileSize optional for custom faces.

MinBandwidth=1097152;
MaxMsgSend=256;
MaxSizeGuaranteed=512;
MaxSizeNonguaranteed=64;
MinErrorToSendNear=0.029999999;
MaxCustomFileSize=80000;
Windowed=0;
adapter=-1;
3D_Performance=1;
Resolution_W=800;
Resolution_H=600;
Resolution_Bpp=32;

MGT, I just want to say thank you for posting this.

 

Not sure what I did to screw it up in the first place but this completely fixed my "wait for host"

[Capt-O]

 -noSound -world=empty -maxMem=2047 -cpuCount=4 -exThreads=1 -noPause -noCB

[MGT]

1 Xeon 8 core with 16 threads

[Kroenen]

Well I've tried with various settings over the past week, including MGTs, and still the problem persists. Not sure where to go with this now. The problem got significantly more widespread in one of the recent updates, but here we are fiddling with the server parameters rather than the update which has seemingly caused it. One would assume if it was my provider, I would have seen this from day one, but this is not the case. Rapidly losing the will to keep my server going now because of the complaints about lag etc this is causing, even though the server FPS is apparently normal or even quite good.

[MGT]

Are you using the 1042a hotfix server_monitor.sqf?

[Stranger]

The problem still exist. And of course, the problme that arma crashes on server also exists.

I wont patch to the next version of epoch because its gettin worse each time!

[Shizweak]

Well I've tried with various settings over the past week, including MGTs, and still the problem persists. Not sure where to go with this now. The problem got significantly more widespread in one of the recent updates, but here we are fiddling with the server parameters rather than the update which has seemingly caused it. One would assume if it was my provider, I would have seen this from day one, but this is not the case. Rapidly losing the will to keep my server going now because of the complaints about lag etc this is causing, even though the server FPS is apparently normal or even quite good.

 

I would put it down to network congestion, or possibly even being capped/throttled.

 

I'm in the opposite boat now, we have no pending messages, but the server FPS is dropping <5 when the server gets busy (e.g. >30 players, it slowly degrades down and down until it's at 1FPS with 40-50 players). Tried removing all mods one by one, removing pook/bell helicopters completely, moved AI to HC - the only thing left is wiping all the base objects/vehicles (which have also been culled/cleaned immensely).

 

Added some debugging code to a few places, looks like every time a vehicle is local to a player (e.g. when they are driving it), and the the damage event handler gets fired, it sets a variable publicly on the vehicle, and also runs PVS to notify the server of the damage. Considering this can be fired several times over a few milliseconds for a small crash, it could be causing issues with high player counts + high vehicle counts. This could be reduced by buffering it for a frame or two, I'll do some testing - seems to be the same in DayZ 1.8 though.

 

Another strange one is this in the player monitor FSM - "{ _x call fnc_veh_ResetEH; } forEach vehicles;" - "vehicles" seems to contain a lot more than just the standard vehicles, e.g. base objects and what not.

 

MGT, out of interest could you post some screenshots of #monitor output when the server is busy?

Also, in regards to your server, are you running all four of your instances from the same machine? Do you set the affinity at all?

 

 

The problem still exist. And of course, the problme that arma crashes on server also exists.

I wont patch to the next version of epoch because its gettin worse each time!

 

I've had a fair amount of issues, but yet to see the ARMA instance actually crash

[Stranger]

My Arma instance crashed also lately like every 20min. After 50% of the bases are getting lost, i wiped the server and started from new on.

Now everything runs stable and no netwrok error messages so far (its 6 hrs online till now).

 

Well i will give you guys feedback, when i identify the problem.

[Shizweak]

My Arma instance crashed also lately like every 20min. After 50% of the bases are getting lost, i wiped the server and started from new on.

Now everything runs stable and no netwrok error messages so far (its 6 hrs online till now).

 

Well i will give you guys feedback, when i identify the problem.

[Stranger]

About 40000 rows  in Database (objects).

 

Anyways, i guess the Database is the problem, or the missions... one of these two are the bottleneck.

 

Now after 19 hrs the server runs very fine without any crash or desync problems. Also the Traders are loading very fast and open doors and safes are instant now.

[Shizweak]

40,000 is ALOT, are you deleting damaged vehicles? or doing any sort of scheduled clean up?

[Stranger]

Server crashes again, after an clean installation of epoch and arma2.

It havent crashed before the patch. There shpuld be any fix out there. I heard of another server admin, that they get it to work, but he wont tell me how to do it. He said he put some old pbo files from an old patch into something. I dont know.

[Stranger]

The guy told me to do it like this:

Keep the Version Name in the Description, and overwrite all files with the old ones from 1.0.4.1. HAvent tested it but this is a way around that crash stuff...

[Buck0]

 

Just posting our basic.cfg we are having success with.

 

In a 3 hour restart period it's around 600-700kb with 7k items in database and constant 50 players. Paste this in and on restart the latitude and longtitude are automatically inserted. MaxCustomFileSize optional for custom faces.

MinBandwidth=1097152;
MaxMsgSend=256;
MaxSizeGuaranteed=512;
MaxSizeNonguaranteed=64;
MinErrorToSendNear=0.029999999;
MaxCustomFileSize=80000;
Windowed=0;
adapter=-1;
3D_Performance=1;
Resolution_W=800;
Resolution_H=600;
Resolution_Bpp=32;

i seem to be getting a fair few red disconnects with these settings :S

[Stranger]

It is a probleme with these settings and german providers. Some dont want you to get kinda packets like this.

 

i seem to be getting a fair few red disconnects with these settings :S

[justchil]

1097152 = 1mbps

 

Bandwidth the server is guaranteed to have (in bps).

 

Most people have max set at 100/1000mbps.

 

This is like some voodoo magic going on here.  

[Buck0]

MinBandwidth=103715200;
MaxMsgSend=256;
MaxSizeGuaranteed=512;
MaxSizeNonguaranteed=64;
MinErrorToSendNear=0.029999999;
MaxCustomFileSize=80000;
Windowed=0;
adapter=-1;
3D_Performance=1;
Resolution_W=800;
Resolution_H=600;
Resolution_Bpp=32;

 

changed to that, no more red's

[Stranger]

Changing that will sometimes not allow players to connect to your server.

[MGT]

Ok, some more tweaking and this is the best one yet, using on my Cherno server which is never below 35 players, usually full at 50 my rpt log over 3 hours is around 800kb with barely any pending messages

MinBandwidth=1097152;
MaxMsgSend=128;
MaxSizeGuaranteed=1024;
MaxSizeNonguaranteed=64;
MinErrorToSendNear=0.029999999;
MinErrorToSend=0.0049999999;
MaxCustomFileSize=0;
Windowed=0;
adapter=-1;
3D_Performance=1;
Resolution_W=800;
Resolution_H=600;

[insertcoins]

 

Ok, some more tweaking and this is the best one yet, using on my Cherno server which is never below 35 players, usually full at 50 my rpt log over 3 hours is around 800kb with barely any pending messages

MinBandwidth=1097152;
MaxMsgSend=128;
MaxSizeGuaranteed=1024;
MaxSizeNonguaranteed=64;
MinErrorToSendNear=0.029999999;
MinErrorToSend=0.0049999999;
MaxCustomFileSize=0;
Windowed=0;
adapter=-1;
3D_Performance=1;
Resolution_W=800;
Resolution_H=600;

 

What's your namalsk one like?