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Ok, let me start by telling you what my setup is, then I'll work into the details....
I'm running a physical server, not some virtualbox. It's a
I'm running Ubuntu Server 12.04LTS on it. (Because with 10.04 anything over 10GB RAM usage boggs the server down, with 12.04 I can get up to 13GB. This is an issue I am still working to resolve.)
It currently has 16GB of RAM installed (max), and I have expanded the swapfile to 16GB as well.
I'm running off of two 73GB 15k RPM hard drives Mirrored with RAID. (RAID-1)
I'm running Psytrac's 1.4.4 release, 343 style and I haven't changed anything except added a couple of items to Gshop, and the things that I'll list below in my troubleshooting efforts.
Here's my problems.. (To be explained in further detail below.)
1. CPW just won't work.
2. Rank9 armor appears to be about as effective as standing naked.
3. When I enter Nightscream Island, the FPS plummets.
4. If anyone has any ideas about why the server bogs down with high memory, I would appreciate it.
Now to go into details....
1. CPW doesn't work:
Ok, so here's what I've done to-date on this issue. (I'm summarizing some data from this thread.)
Occasionally it will tell me that there is a version mismatch, (since the server is technically at 609 now, but my clients are at 606), but when I try to verify it doesn't actually do anything, and then tells me that it can't connect to the server. (Just the patcher, the clients still run just fine.)
2. Rank 9 is ineffective
Here's what we did...
3. Nightscream FPS bug
OK, my computer isn't the greatest at the moment since my video card died and I'm using this integrated chip. However, I am still able to play just fine with an average FPS of about 12-20.
When I enter Nightscream Island, drops horribly to a max FPS of 6. As soon as I leave Nightscream, either by porting out or entering the Trench, my FPS jumps right back up to normal.
So far, it appears to be on just this one map. Anyone have any clues about what would cause this?
I would try verifying my files, but since CPW it's working, that's not an option atm.
4. The Sluggy Server
It runs just great, right up until I cross over 12GB of RAM usage. (Was 10.5GB when I was using 10.04LTS.)
It's not really using Swap either, even when it gets up into the high areas.
I did notice something interesting when looking at fdisk today. Here's what I see..
I apologize for this post being so huge, but without the details, posting for help is pretty pointless.
I'm running a physical server, not some virtualbox. It's a
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with 2x 2.6GHz Opteron CPU's.I'm running Ubuntu Server 12.04LTS on it. (Because with 10.04 anything over 10GB RAM usage boggs the server down, with 12.04 I can get up to 13GB. This is an issue I am still working to resolve.)
It currently has 16GB of RAM installed (max), and I have expanded the swapfile to 16GB as well.
I'm running off of two 73GB 15k RPM hard drives Mirrored with RAID. (RAID-1)
I'm running Psytrac's 1.4.4 release, 343 style and I haven't changed anything except added a couple of items to Gshop, and the things that I'll list below in my troubleshooting efforts.
Here's my problems.. (To be explained in further detail below.)
1. CPW just won't work.
2. Rank9 armor appears to be about as effective as standing naked.
3. When I enter Nightscream Island, the FPS plummets.
4. If anyone has any ideas about why the server bogs down with high memory, I would appreciate it.
Now to go into details....
1. CPW doesn't work:
Ok, so here's what I've done to-date on this issue. (I'm summarizing some data from this thread.)
- From a clean server install I got my client configured how I needed it with the servers ports and everything set up and tested.
- I then unpacked all of the .pck files and assembled the entire mess into one .7z file being careful to preserve the Chinese characters for file names.
- Then we copied it over to the server in /opt/cpw/files/new and extracted it.
- then from /opt/cpw, I ran "./cpw initial"
- Once that was done, I tried to connect the client, and it won't find it.
- I ran "./cpw revision 607" and tried again, no luck.
- I have since taken the patcher.exe and Launcher.exe and copied them over to /opt/cpw.
- I then, (following an English translation of the Russian instructions, thank you PsyTrac), ran "./cpw x patcher.exe" and "./cpw x Launcher.exe", then after it got done patching those files with the keys, I moved them to their respective folders in /opt/cpw/files/new and ran "./cpw revision 608" Unfortunately, still nothing has changed.
- I additionally copied those files after they were "patched" by cpw back over to my computer and get the same result.
- I've even done it with the original patcher and Launcher from 343's release and had no luck.
Occasionally it will tell me that there is a version mismatch, (since the server is technically at 609 now, but my clients are at 606), but when I try to verify it doesn't actually do anything, and then tells me that it can't connect to the server. (Just the patcher, the clients still run just fine.)
2. Rank 9 is ineffective
Here's what we did...
- My wife created a Psychic logged into it and logged out.
- I used iweb to make the toon level 101, changed the max hp, mp, reputation, spirit, and attribute points to the appropriate values for her new level.
- I edited the XML to give her the cultivation level of 8, which I believe is right before you go Sage/Demon.)
- She logged in and learned all of her skills, then logged out.
- I edited the XML to give her the chi.
- She logged back in, got her gear, made stones and refined it ect.
- She's now got the full R9 set, loaded with JoSD's and refined to +12. (No editing here, she did it the hard way.)
- Now we're doing her spiritual cultivation for Sage, and we go into Brimstone.
- This is where we notice that she's taking insane amounts of damage. Each mob is hitting her for 1k+ of damage. My cleric with Rank8 isnt' taking hits that hard and I haven't even geared it as much as she geared her Psy.
3. Nightscream FPS bug
OK, my computer isn't the greatest at the moment since my video card died and I'm using this integrated chip. However, I am still able to play just fine with an average FPS of about 12-20.
When I enter Nightscream Island, drops horribly to a max FPS of 6. As soon as I leave Nightscream, either by porting out or entering the Trench, my FPS jumps right back up to normal.
So far, it appears to be on just this one map. Anyone have any clues about what would cause this?
I would try verifying my files, but since CPW it's working, that's not an option atm.
4. The Sluggy Server
It runs just great, right up until I cross over 12GB of RAM usage. (Was 10.5GB when I was using 10.04LTS.)
It's not really using Swap either, even when it gets up into the high areas.
I did notice something interesting when looking at fdisk today. Here's what I see..
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root@PWI:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 70.7 GB, 70653050880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8589 cylinders, total 137994240 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0008be8b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 501758 137992191 68745217 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 501760 137992191 68745216 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/mapper/PWI-root: 53.3 GB, 53280243712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6477 cylinders, total 104062976 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/PWI-root doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/PWI-swap_1: 17.1 GB, 17112760320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2080 cylinders, total 33423360 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/PWI-swap_1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
root@PWI:~#
I apologize for this post being so huge, but without the details, posting for help is pretty pointless.