Lag during looting.

[Irreverent]

Anyone had this problem before?

If not, what are some good steps to assist in finding out what the problem is.

Running on a dual-core athlon 2.6Ghz 3G Ram
...but on vista. Might be my problem them.

[trevius]

Have you tried getting the AMD Optimizer Driver yet? The FAQ in my sig should help with multi-core CPU issues.

[Irreverent]

Ooops, let me give more detail. But, thanks for your answer.

Its not *me* playing the game, but rather my game-server *everyone* has loot lag (20 seconds sometimes) when looting something.

[trevius]

What do you mean by "when loading something"? When they are loading into the server to char select? When they are entering the world from char select? When they are zoning? Need a bit more info. If players load slowly when zoning or entering the world, then it is probably due to your upload bandwidth. How fast is your upload speed? Also, is this issue constant or does it only happen some of the time?

[Irreverent]

"looting" not loading.

Just when they click a corpse to loot, it sometimes takes 5-20 seconds.


Doesn't always happen either.

[trevius]

Ohh, my bad lol. Are you sure you have the .conf files updated in your server folder to match the revision of source code you are running?

[pfyon]

What's the processor/memory usage looking like? How about mysql queries? If your hardware just can't handle the load the server is experiencing, I'd expect lag to be a consequence.

[Irreverent]

Maybe I should tweak MySQL settings...

Athlon X2 dual-core BE-2350 2.1Ghz
2G RAM
Integrated Nvidia 6150SE nForce 430
250G HD
Vistia Premium x86

[Rogean]

This might be related to the server enforced delay KLS implimented for looting recently.

[Irreverent]

Ok, a couple more things.

1) This is only when bring up the loot window, find transfering items from there
2) Also, when you click sell/buy from a merchant it takes a couple extra seconds.

Loaded GnS Affinity on the server just to check...running at very low CPU usage my 2G memory isn't really being peaked either.

[Tharkun]

what about overall network usage? The server is probably processing the request as soon as it gets it, however if there is a lot of network activity, or some other series of network events occurring, it may simply take that long for the data to travel.

I would look at port forwarding, collisions, and other such.

while in your client press f11, and your net stats will show in the upper left corner, what is your latency?

[Irreverent]

Hrm, good point. I logged into eq via the same machine and looting is pretty instantaneous.

Port forwarding:
9000 to 9000
7000 to 7100
3306 to 3306
5998 to 5998
9080 to 9080
10234 to 10234
7779 to 7779
I'm forwarding both UDP/TCP with those port ranges to the server machine on a Linsys WRT54G

OK, we're getting somewhere...

[Irreverent]

But, on my other machine...right next to it(thru same router) I'm gettin 100% and 22ms response...get loot lag

[Tharkun]

This sound like network collisions.
Do you have people connecting externally, or is it all LAN?
If all your connections are LAN you may be creating a problem by port forwarding when it's not needed.

[Irreverent]

Most people play via the internet, I'm the only one on the Lan and get the lag too like everyone else.

UPDATE: I am also getting the lag on the pc that runs the server now, so it seems independant of location now.