Installing Issues: Painfully slow

[breakaway]

Hi,

I've decided to resurrect my server, (1.8 Celeron, 512MB Memory, 2mbit/s connection).

I did everything the guide said, but the server installs VERY slowly. After about 30 minutes of typing the install game command, I've got this far:



I don't know whats causing it. Its just so painfully slow. I tried this a couple days ago. Left the installer running inside a screen for about a day, it didn't get very far. Finally I got frustrated and quit. I waited and tried again, but I'm still having the same issues.

Any Ideas why? Any help appreciated

[puppeteer]

can you test you connection speed to make sure that you are getting your full 2mbps?

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

[cryotek]

do not run as root&*(#$^&*(#$^*(#$

never run ANY type of server as root.

[breakaway]

Fixed.

And as for the speedtest, I'm getting speeds ranging from 300 - 400kbit/s from US Servers (I'm located in New Zealand).

Still it shouldn't be taking this long right? Since my Windows Steam Client updates at a higher speed (Up to 100KB/s at a time - almost 1mbit/s)

[cryotek]

300-400kbit = 37.5-50KB/sec i don't think the steam binaries(hldsupdatetool) use the same content servers as steam clients do, therefore you're only using certain steam servers in the us, as far as client wise goes, it's probably using more local content servers so you'll see better speeds with client than the hldsupdatetool.

Quote:[05:01 EST][anarchy@Guru:~]$ du -ch srcds |grep total
1.2G total

Thats the size of the linux server, 2 or 3 other maps than stock maps. so if you're getting around ~30KB/sec yeah it'll take a bit. esspecially if there is high load on the steam servers, then it'll be even lower ;\

[breakaway]

Yeah Its been downloading cs_havanna for about 6 hours now. The steam servers must be under a great deal of load for some odd reason.

[Drocona]

I'm downloading 2.5mbps so, nothing wrong here :S since 2.5mbps is the max download for an updating server

[patgaw]

maybe try to change MTU.

[breakaway]

patgaw Wrote:maybe try to change MTU.

But everything else has worked perfectly so far :\

[puppeteer]

so this is just steam that is taking a long time to download or everything on this box is taking a long time to download?

[breakaway]

Just steam. I get my full 2mbit/s (1mbit/s worst case scenario) for other things.

Steam update was VERY slow, so I obtained the server by downloading it onto another server and then downloading it from there onto my server.

Now this:

[breakaway]

I appear to have figured out why my steam updates very slowly / not at all.

I ran a 'netstat' while steam was updating, and it seemed to be connected to 69.28.153.82 and 68.142.88.34.

Traceroutes:

My Windows Comptuer (on the same lan and goes through the same gateway as the server)

Code:

C:\>tracert 69.28.153.82

Tracing route to 69.28.153.82 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1     5 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  gateway.threekings.web-2u.co.nz [10.2.254.1]
  2     3 ms     1 ms     1 ms  10.2.0.6
  3    79 ms    76 ms    76 ms  lo0.akl-grafton-bba1.ihug.net [203.215.15.242]
  4    73 ms    86 ms    80 ms  203.215.14.37
  5    79 ms    76 ms    75 ms  gi2-10.akl-grafton-bdr1.ihug.net [203.215.14.50]
  6    88 ms    73 ms    88 ms  ip-static-202-147-45-73.asianetcom.net [202.14745.73]
  7   202 ms   211 ms   204 ms  po0-0.gw1.sjc1.asianetcom.net [202.147.50.129]
  8   231 ms   205 ms   208 ms  ge3-11.fr3.sjc.llnw.net [68.142.116.249]
  9   283 ms   281 ms   290 ms  tge1-1.fr3.ord.llnw.net [69.28.171.65]
10   283 ms   280 ms   280 ms  tge7-4.fr3.lga.llnw.net [69.28.171.194]
11   314 ms   308 ms   304 ms  69.28.153.82

Trace complete.

Traceroute 2 (from a friend's computer who is with another ISP)

Code:

1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  mygateway1.ar7 [10.1.1.1]
  2    55 ms    54 ms    55 ms  60.234.8.16
  3    54 ms    54 ms    52 ms  60.234.9.1
  4     *        *       52 ms  ge-2-2-0.gw4.akl1.asianetcom.net [203.192.166.69]
  5   180 ms   233 ms   180 ms  po4-1.gw1.sjc1.asianetcom.net [202.147.55.246]
  6   240 ms   240 ms   211 ms  ge3-11.fr3.sjc.llnw.net [68.142.116.249]
  7   291 ms   260 ms   257 ms  tge1-1.fr3.ord.llnw.net [69.28.171.65]
  8   319 ms  mygateway1.ar7 [10.1.1.1]  reports: Destination protocol unreachable.

Another friend, another ISP

Code:

C:\>tracert 69.28.153.82

Tracing route to 69.28.153.82 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  2    55 ms    59 ms    56 ms  222-152-192-1.jetstream.xtra.co.nz [222.152.192.1]
  3    57 ms    54 ms    52 ms  222.152.127.131
  4    67 ms    73 ms    71 ms  ge0-3-0-1006.akbr3.global-gateway.net.nz [203.96.120.93]
  5    66 ms    62 ms    64 ms  p5-0.tkbr3.global-gateway.net.nz [203.96.120.194]
  6   185 ms   181 ms   187 ms  so-1-1-0.labr3.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.18]
  7   188 ms   183 ms   188 ms  so2-0-0-0.labr4.global-gateway.net.nz [203.96.120.102]
  8   185 ms   183 ms   184 ms  ge2-7.fr1.lax.llnw.net [206.223.123.123]
  9   235 ms   233 ms   230 ms  tge1-3.fr3.sjc.llnw.net [69.28.171.118]
10   295 ms   299 ms   291 ms  tge1-1.fr3.ord.llnw.net [69.28.171.65]
11   307 ms   309 ms   311 ms  tge7-4.fr3.lga.llnw.net [69.28.171.194]
12   300 ms   349 ms   303 ms  69.28.153.82

Trace complete.

Then for some reason steam decided to connect to an Australian server, which is quite close to me. (Why not before?)

But its still pretty unstable.

Traceroute to australian server from my computer:

Code:

Tracing route to steam.wa.egn.com.au [203.24.101.93]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     5 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  gateway.threekings.web-2u.co.nz [10.2.254.1]
  2     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  10.2.0.6
  3    79 ms    78 ms    79 ms  lo0.akl-grafton-bba1.ihug.net [203.215.15.242]
  4    82 ms    81 ms    81 ms  203.215.14.37
  5    89 ms    81 ms    74 ms  gi2-10.akl-grafton-bdr1.ihug.net [203.215.14.50
  6    80 ms    81 ms    82 ms  fa0-0.akl-grafton-sydgw1.ihug.net [203.215.14.3]
  7   265 ms   265 ms   251 ms  fa1-0.syd-pipe-aklgw1.ii.net [203.215.0.247]
  8   269 ms   266 ms   293 ms  gi3-10.syd-pipe-bdr2.ii.net [203.215.0.32]
  9   267 ms   274 ms   291 ms  ge4-4.mel-pipe-bdr2.ii.net [203.215.0.242]
10   283 ms   282 ms   281 ms  AS9837.melbourne.pipenetworks.com [218.100.13.2]
11   283 ms   298 ms   547 ms  per-cust-p-03-atm201.powertel.net.au [202.92.6633]
12   322 ms   329 ms   322 ms  powertel-gw.wa.dft.net.au [210.87.38.146]
13   325 ms   306 ms   300 ms  ge0-1-602.core0.per.dft.net.au [203.24.100.217]
14   331 ms   336 ms   334 ms  steam.wa.egn.com.au [203.24.101.93]

Trace complete.

It seems that for some reason my connection to steam servers is flaky at best, hence the issues. The server works, but intermittently. It was just pulling about 100KB/s from the Australian server.