Ok, I am having some major instability problems here...
My problems are 2 things:
If I use one single machine to run world, zones, and DB, my server runs fine... (with a whopping 2-4 zones) hehehe...
But I get major instability in the zones, pretty much 2/3 times I zone, or die, my client freezes up... I can't find anything in the zone logs, zone error logs, zone debug logs, or the world logs to say ANYTHING that would help troubleshooting, the zoneserver doesn't crash, (I know because I have a watchdog tracking the process that would let me know if it crashed) and I can't figure out what the hell is causing the stability issue...
It is running on a P3800 1Gig ram, Redhat 8.0 with mysql set for "Large" to handle rapid and large transactions.
it is not a server load issue, because cpu load never goes higher than 80% during testing (when the error occurs)
Some of the crashes are client lockups, while others are the typical "EQ has crashed" message...
Any help on this issue would be GREATLY appreciated... I NEED to know what is causing the instability...
Second:
When I try and bring up my other machines (I have a few) for zone servers and run the world server as ONLY a world/db server (what I hope to be doing in the end)
Then everything appears to run fine, but then when I try to log in, I lock up the client EVERY time right after char select... I Never get farther...
The logs show "starting up zone" and such with the correct zoneserver IP and such, and the correct zone, and they show everything normal as if I logged straight into the zone...
No errors, no nothing bad... Can't figure this one out either!
The zoneserver machines are the same hardware as worldserver, running exactly the same OS... With a copy of the binary files and scripts that I use on the other machine...
The machines are on a gigabit lan with one another, and all are plugged directly into a pair of load balanced T1s... With no firewall or anything between them, and no firewall on the linux machines running either... So no port blocking at all...
Both have real public static IP addresses, and both have DNS Names mapped real world as well. I am using the DNS names to contact the servers in my scripts (for running zoneservers and such I pass the dns name rather than the IP)
Please tell me anything I am doing wrong, and what I can do to improve stability!!!
Thanks
Major Instability Issues... HELP!!!! :)
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