CSS Round Start Lag

[dualcore1289]

Well if you concluded that it is certainly the bandwidth, the only option/suggestion would be to switch to a new host/upgrade your bandwidth options.

[Xaphan]

Sounds like connection to me to...
One suggestion is lowering the tickrate to 66 and see how it all plays out.

Curious
During peak times is the cpu usage over 50%?
Are you using affinity on any srcds?
Also, can you post your servers IP or PM them to me?

[Knight319]

I'll PM one or two of the server IP's to you.

During peak time, CPU usage doesn't tend to go over 50%. We are also using affinity for the servers that are more popular if they are sharing a core with another server.

[loopyman]

How bad is this start round lag? Because if it just happens on the starting round of one server and it doesn't lag at the exact same time on another server then its probably another issue besides bandwidth.

If one game server causes bandwidth lag, then the other game servers on the same box should lag as well.

Again, how bad is this lag, please describe it to me.

[Knight319]

It tends to be anywhere from 1-7 second lag on all the servers at basically the same time. It tends to happen all of the time when the server's get close to being full. I've also noticed the lag can also happen during actual gameplay, but it's less noticeable as it happens less. Mainly during the round start phase.

[loopyman]

But when it does happen, it affects all the game servers?
If that's the case then it sounds like a bandwidth problem... Just go with a new provider, and if it continues to lag, then you have another problem.

[rickje10000]

(10-25-2009, 12:38 PM)Knight319 Wrote:  Here are the speed test results. Our server is based in Washington D.C., so I chose the server in Washington D.C. The server IP seems to go to Dallas for some reason though.

WTF my speed is 0.81 ?! i have a lagg to.
not so strange. how to fix ??

[SaintGTR]

Make sure the servers are on high priority and you have srcdsfpsboost on.