Skipping/Lag.

[Hazz]

Thanks for that.

I've tried one of the things off there to start off with.

[Hazz]

Right, I got the lag again this morning.

I'm going to try setting my servers to run at normal priority. I've heard that can help sometimes with this problem.

[Spartanfrog]

What servers are set to what priority Hazz?

[Hazz]

Well they are all set to run at high.

They're in my signature, apart from the 64 man which is now a 24 slot 66 tick server.

[Hazz]

Right, I think I've found the cause for this.

I set the priority to above normal, however I still got the lag spikes but they were very short and not as severe.

So, I'm guessing setting it to normal will fix it completely, I will be trying it later.

[Drocona]

I hope it does, cause up till now I too have been clueless and no idea what to tell you :O

[drazah]

my beasty technical skills are the winner aye Hazz?

[Hazz]

Yeh....

[Hazz]

Right well the lag spikes are still happening however, on core 1 when the lag spikes happen you can see a huge spike on the graph....

The core this is happening on is our Zombiemod 40 slot 33 tick server.

Not sure if its the server or windows tho...

[Hazz]

Right, I think I have found the remaining cause.

Basically, when our zombie server changes map, you can see a huge spike on the task manager graph and this is when the tick drops and the servers lag.

How to fix?

[BR5DY]

This is a pretty good guide - some things help, some don't:
http://cpnclan.home.comcast.net/~cpnclan/guide.html

What model hard drive? Are you using RAID? If so, what level?

[Hazz]

YES, YES, YES.

Found the problem, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, I'm so happy right now.

Zombie server with 40 ppl + mani stats calculating at map change = lag train

So I'm going to order HLstatsX to keep the ranking system away from the main server.