Thread:Ffets/@comment-25565811-20150111184634

I didn't know where to put this, so I've put it as comment on the server page and duplicated it here:

Server issues: The first day, the server was up it was pretty fast and I thought, now everything would be ok, but it wasn't. The old problems are back:

There is a lot of lag some times, not always. I think that has not so much to do with how much memory space it has (I think they want to upgrade from 6 to 12 GB) or how much players are online (it also lags much with 6/100 players and is still ok with 25/100). Sometimes I've got the feeling, that there are background processes running, probably doing backup or something. That is ok, you can twich these with setting up proper priorities.

But the main thing, in my opinion, is the issue, that the memory isn't recollected correctly. I used to be a computer scientist, and in my days (1990s) this was called "garbage collection". I don't know what they call it nowadays.

So what they do (or did, when I get it right), is to restart the server every hour. That helps, because all the memory is rearranged by that. But the stuffed memory - and because of that the lag - builds up again with improper garbage collection.

When you are unlucky, the restart takes place, when the lotr database is open, this crashes the database and all player related data (as waypoints and alignment) is lost and has to be restored manually by the server admins. That happend several times before and today again. This is a lot of unnescesary work for the admins, ordinary people and admins get annoyed and probably leave the server for good sooner or later.

My text here should not be understood as a compaint, I just wanted to tell you my point of view. I even don't know, if I am right. But I hope, that the server admins will read this (I know, that at least MG and Mevans drop by here from time to time) and consider, if I might be on the right trail. Perhaps just get some professional help with that. (Not me, my knowledge is far too old for this!)

I like the people playing on the official server and would be sad, if this community would be destroyed because of tecnical problems. But I think, this could happen soon, when you can't fix them.

I whish us players a lot of patience and the admins a lucky idea, sometimes it takes just this. 