Major Lag Spike

[D'darrio]

I've been working with servers for along time. But there has always been one problem that I have not seem to figure out. When ever the 6th player joins a game, people start to experience FPS problems. Then they experience their characters arms fly to different positions than the camera, they will lag for about 30 seconds to over 300-600 ping. After that, it seems fine. All my other friends have the same problem. Here is my server.cfg:
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//Server Hosting Settings
hostname "-=LAG-WARS=- (Potential Lag)"
rcon_password "xxxxxxx"

//Executed files
exec "mani_server.cfg"

//Server Configuration
sv_accelerate "6"
sv_airaccelerate "360"
sv_allowupload "1"
sv_allowdownload "1"
sv_alltalk "1"
sv_cheats "0"
sv_consistency "0"
sv_filterban "0"
sv_friction "4"
sv_gravity "220"
sv_lan "0"
sv_logbans "1"
sv_maxrate "0"
sv_minrate "0"
sv_maxupdaterate "80"
sv_maxupdaterate "33"
sv_password " "
sv_pausable "0"
sv_timeout "55"
sv_voicecodec "vaudio_miles"
sv_voiceenable "1"
sv_region "North America"

//Multiplayer Configuration
mp_limitteams "3"
mp_flashlight "0"
mp_autoteambalance "1"
mp_allowspectators "1"
mp_autokick "0"
mp_buytime "999"
mp_c4timer "30"
mp_chattime "10"
mp_disable_autokick "1"
mp_footsteps "1"
mp_freezetime "0"
mp_roundtime "9"
mp_tkpunish "0"
mp_friendlyfire "0"
mp_hostagepenalty "0"
mp_startmoney "16000"

//Multiplayer Physics/Other Physics
phys_pushscale "-400"
phys_timescale "-1"

[cryotek]

Let get some more information on the situation, server specs and bandwidth perhaps?

also a list of plugins will help too.

[D'darrio]

Well, Nothing to be proud up for upstream data and downstream..

Server Processing Frequency: 1.6 GHz
Server Datarate: UPSTREAM - ~ 500, DOWNSTREAM - ~700
Server Plugins: Mani_Admin_Plugin (Build Version 1.2 RC2.6)

Server FPS: 300-500
Anymore information needed?

[cryotek]

i assume its 500kbit and not 500kbyte/sec

That is a limiting factor, are you running 100 tick? 66 tick? or 33 tick?

[Drocona]

If you dont set sv_maxrate you will be well over yoour maximum uplaod speed with 6 players.
As cryotek asked, waht tickrate are you running
also what is the maximum number of players

[D'darrio]

Sorry for not displaying my Tickrate and such.
My Tickrate is about 77. I assume it wouldn't hurt to lower it.
And I've messed around with sv_maxrate, it only makes it worse. The Choke ranges to 100 if it is set. Probably because I've either set it too low, or set it too high. What would be a reasonable maxrate.

[cryotek]

Well if you set it too high and with only 500kbps you're going to get choke. try 66, your cpu isn't that great.

What is your current sv_maxrate?

[D'darrio]

It is located above in the server.cfg I displayed.

[cryotek]

Setting it to 0 is not the best thing, your server can only send 62.5KB/sec and sv_maxrate is the amount of data a client can request from the server, try setting it to hmm, around 4000 and see how that fairs out. you can probably do the sv_minrate to about 1000-2000 Your upload is really hurting your server.

edit: i noticed you have 2 sv_maxupdaterate i assume you meant the 33 to be sv_minupdaterate might wanna change that as well

[Drocona]

If you run a 66 tick your server will hold a max of 4 players. the higher you set the tick, the higher your sv_maxrate should be, but since you don't have enough upload bandwidth, I suggest running a 33 tick for 8-10 players with a sv_maxrate of 7000, this is how I run my server on 512 kbps

[D'darrio]

Oh, cool. Thanks, I'll test that.. Anyways, I did a test for DL an UL speeds..

UPSTREAM: 523 kbps
DOWNSTREAM: 1029 kbps

With normal DSL From Telus

[cryotek]

Yeah, you're still in the ~60kB/sec which can really hurt your server, if possible see if you can get a service increase, maybe around 1mbps

edit: haha 1000th post im catching up to you skeletor

[skeletor]

cryotek Wrote:edit: haha 1000th post im catching up to you skeletor

nooo you can't catch up to meee...

but hey, i haven't even been on this forum for like 4 months until about a week ago.