Short lag spike when player joins

[Nailzy]

Hi chaps,

I've recently rebuilt our Gungame Server from scratch as we have a new dedicated server. The old server was running Gungame5 with no issues.

The new server has been built with Gungame 5.1 and now when a player joins the server, all clients experience a small lag spike. Once they are on - it doesnt happen anymore - only when clients connect or retry.

Setup is :

Eventscripts 2.252
Sp_extensions_ep1
Gungame 5.1 R440
Sourcemod 1.2.4
Metamod Source v1.7.1V
zBlock 4.4


It is definatly not being caused by zblock as I have removed the plugin entirely during testing and it still happens. I also have a deathmatch server with the same plugin setup (minus Gungame obviously) and it doesnt happen on there.


If I unload or do not load Gungame - it also works fine.

Any ideas?

Cheers

[Nailzy]

I've joined a couple of other servers runnging GG 5.1 and the issue seems apparent on them as well... however it is more obvious on 100tick servers. If you join 66/75 tick servers the lag spike is nowhere near as noticeable.

[Nailzy]

Warren - sorry to be a pain - do you have any ideas on this one?

[Warren]

Warren - sorry to be a pain - do you have any ideas on this one?

I do not have any ideas about this.

I do know that GunGame5.1 is running on 200+ servers without these issues, many of which are very popular and widely known.

GunGame is a large addon, and if your server is struggling for resources from the start, it is possible that there could be performance issues.

[Nailzy]

I'll have to spend some more time on this to diagnose it.

The server runs 2 quad core CPU's with 8gb of RAM, which we own and is hosted in one of the UK's biggest datacentres - so resources aren't and issue. We have 4 match servers, a deathmatch and a gungame server running and it doesn't hit 20% load. I've done testing with all other game instances stopped and the result is the same.

Someone else has the exact same issue:

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=124815

I will come back if I notice anything - cheers for replying.