Hi folks!
We are running a ded. ET Linux Server.
But once or twice a day (sometimes more) he hangs up with 90 - 97% CPU extent of utilization.
We get following message from Console log.
ERROR: Info_SetValueForKey: oversize infostring
Any help could be useful 
TIA
Analyzer
I have similar problems where the game will just shutdown, the sad thing is that ET is still running, so now I have a script that’s run from cron which checks that the program is running and also parses the output of qstat and checks that the max players in the config file reports what qstat reports, any errors and it kills the process and restarts ET server. This way the server needs little interaction and any problems mean a max of 1 min downtime.
How about sharing this script with us other admins?
I for one have the same problem with the server dying from time to time. I would really like to have a script that would kill and restart ET.
-J
FWIW… here’s one I wrote… it isn’t useful in its present
state to others since it relies upon a database of servers
we keep, but should give an idea of how to write a generic
one.
[slick@nd80-198-100 servers]$ cat poll_et.sh | more
#/bin/sh
# $1 = the name of the server to poll and restart (e.g. notredame-ettest)
RESTART="./server.sh $1 polled"
# get the settings for this server
BLINE=`grep $1 bindings.dat`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo ""
echo No settings found for server $1 in bindings.dat.
echo ""
exit
fi
NAME=`echo $BLINE | cut -f 1 -d ' '`
IP=`echo $BLINE | cut -f 2 -d ' '`
PORT=`echo $BLINE | cut -f 3 -d ' '`
while [ 1 ]
do
sleep 300 # do the wait here to let server get started
QLINE=`qstat -nh -rws $IP:2796$PORT`
echo "`date` $QLINE" | grep fueldump
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
date
echo $QLINE
echo "server $NAME might be dead... waiting 60 seconds and trying again."
sleep 60
QLINE=`qstat -nh -rws $IP:2796$PORT`
echo "$QLINE" | grep fueldump
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "Server seems to be OK."
else
echo $QLINE
echo "Server is dead"
PSLINE=`ps ax --width 1000 | grep etded.x86 | grep $NAME`
echo $PSLINE
PID=`echo "$PSLINE" | grep set | awk '{ print $1 }'`
# if etded is really running
if [ "$PID" != "" ]
then
echo need to kill PID $PID
kill $PID
fi
echo "restart"
echo "pwd is `pwd`"
echo "executing: $RESTART"
$RESTART
exit
fi
fi
done
Here’s the database it uses…
[slick@nd80-198-100 servers]$ cat bindings.dat
######################## bindings.dat ###################
#
# $Id: bindings.dat,v 1.14 2003/05/10 15:30:15 slick Exp $
#
# format: key ip single-digit-port(0=>game=27960,pb=9000) Active=Y/N sv_hostname
#
blueandgold-ettest 207.44.198.100 2 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Blue ^3Gold - ET"
blueandgold-shrubmod 207.44.230.85 1 N "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Blue ^3Gold"
calcomp-osp 207.44.246.63 5 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4CAL ^3Competition ^4Only (OSP 0.83)"
fightingirish-shrubmod 207.44.246.63 0 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Fighting^3Irish"
goldendome-shrubmod 207.44.246.63 1 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Golden ^3Dome"
jackies-ettest 207.44.246.63 2 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Jackie's ^3Server - ET"
joemontana-shrubmod 207.44.206.51 1 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Joe ^3Montana"
knuterockne-ettest 207.44.206.51 2 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Knute ^3Rockne - ET"
knuterockne-shrubmod 207.44.206.51 0 N "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Knute ^3Rockne"
notredame-ettest 207.44.230.85 2 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Notre ^3Dame - ET"
ndwannabe-ettest 207.44.246.63 2 N "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Jackie's ^3Server - ET"
ourlady-shrubmod 207.44.246.63 3 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Our ^3Lady"
osppublic-osp 207.44.198.100 5 N "^3[^4ND80^3] something OSP something"
rudyrudy-shrubmod 207.44.182.7 5 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Rudy ^3Rudy"
rtcw-wolftactics 207.44.182.7 0 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Wolf^3Tactics"
sacredheart-ettest 207.44.246.63 4 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4Sacred ^3Heart - ET"
thegrotto-ettest 207.44.246.63 6 Y "^3[^4ND80^3]^4The ^3Grotto - ET"
test-shrubmod 207.44.246.63 8 T "^3[^4ND80^3]^4shrubmod ^3test"
test-ettest 207.44.246.63 9 T "^3[^4ND80^3]^4ettest ^3test"
Finally… here’s a sample of its output…
Sun May 4 16:30:25 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 24/24 fueldump 0 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
Sun May 4 16:35:25 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 21/24 fueldump 0 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
Sun May 4 16:40:24 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 22/24 fueldump 0 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
Sun May 4 16:45:24 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 24/24 fueldump 20 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
Sun May 4 16:50:24 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 23/24 fueldump 1 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
Sun May 4 16:55:24 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 21/24 fueldump 0 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
Sun May 4 17:00:26 EDT 2003
207.44.198.100:27962 no response
server blueandgold-ettest might be dead... waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
207.44.198.100:27962 no response
Server is dead
23228 pts/0 RN 140:02 ./etded.x86 +set fs_homepath /home/ND80serv/servers/s 19901 ? SN 0:00 grep etded.x8
6
need to kill PID 23228
restart
pwd is /home/ND80serv/servers
executing: ./server.sh blueandgold-ettest polled
Starting ettest server blueandgold-ettest on 207.44.198.100 with ports 27962/9002
screen succesfully launched
There is a screen on:
19934.blueandgold-ettest-207.44.198.100-27962-9002 (Multi, detached)
1 Socket in /tmp/screens/S-slick.
Starting poll at Sun May 4 17:01:31 EDT 2003
Sun May 4 17:06:31 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 1/24 fueldump 0 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
Sun May 4 17:11:31 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 0/24 fueldump 0 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
Sun May 4 17:16:31 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 0/24 fueldump 0 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
Sun May 4 17:21:31 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 0/24 fueldump 0 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
Sun May 4 17:26:31 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 0/24 fueldump 0 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
Sun May 4 17:31:31 EDT 2003 207.44.198.100:27962 0/24 fueldump 0 / 0 ettest [ND80]Blue Gold
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