A pretty valid suggestion.

In light of the pretty frequent lag outs and restarts which are in some cases unavoidable and do happen, maybe there is a minor solution. Maybe you could plan preemptive restarts much like in retail? On schedule restarts would be much less disruptive and people could plan accordingly. I'm sure this has been talked about before but maybe someone would like to enlighten me on why this isnt being done already?

 

This is a good suggestion. I think a server restart could be done every Monday, Friday, and perhaps Wednesday. That way, it could be restarted on Monday and help keep lag down to a minimum throughout the week. Then, on Friday, it could be restarted since most people would be home for the weekend which means a lot more people will be online, which will keep lag down for any events that may be held. And as I said, maybe Wednesday if it's needed.

 

It seemed pretty logical to me :\ No sense in having people freak out and spam .asmo just because the server lags out and have people rushing to the forums begging for GM's that have no control over the situation.

 

This is already suggested before,to schedule a restart every 8 hours,3 restarts a day,or maybe 12 hours,2 restarts a day

But sadly it got ignored

 

Once every 12 hours would be reasonable, wouldn't be that difficult not sure why they haven't done it already o.o

off topic, are you from retail Commodus?

 

big words i dont know what this means lol

 

** have a login queue, which allows the maintaining of the current server players, avoiding crashes. If the server is at full capacity, it lets you on the queue and online players must logout for this queue to progress. This keeps the server at normal or full capacity, but never over it.

 

Yes im from retail.

 

Use the search button next time ...
http://forum.gameznetwork.com/showthread.php/36559-Server-Reboot-Suggestion!!?highlight=

 

very good idea

 

Thanks for the feedback people hopefully this can get stickied and/or recognized by someone who can do something about it.

That thread died 4 months ago and nothing ever came of it... Use some common sense next time...

 

Bump until someone of importance either shoots this down or confirms it.

 

It's a good idea. Just take note that the server doesn't always crash due to a long uptime, as we've already upgraded to a more stable host - a lot of the time it's just a random memory leak that causes the crash, in which case the server would need to be manually restarted, anyway. The only complaint I can imagine about this is that scheduled restarts would create more downtime the usual crashes do.

Overall good idea, though.

 

I say: You got Raik's support~

 

A once every few days planned restart would not be disruptive at all. And i guarantee you your total uptime would improve.

 

unfortunately the delays arent caused by the number of players but by memory leaks no matter how many players r on, if the server is up for too long we end up with delays

and yeah im all for the restarts. better than random delays/crashes and a "carl is sleeping" response with several hours downtime. these restarts take a couple of minutes at most

 

^ Exactly. 17-0 doesn't lie.