4 Hour Restarts Should Be Manditory for Defiance Servers

[greenmonster714]

Most of the time when the servers are brought down for a quick 5 minute restart things seem to run ahellofalot smoother. So, why can't they be brought down at least every 4 hours until the lag/timeout/everything else issues are worked out? What's 5 minutes compared to hours of non playable gaming time? Giving us boost weekends is not fixing the problem guys. We appreciate the boosts but what good are they if you can't even play the game?

If you think 4 hour resets would help the game keep bumping this thread. Perhaps Trion will see it if it get enough attention.

[Camelot]

Most of the time when the servers are brought down for a quick 5 minute restart things seem to run ahellofalot smoother. So, why can't they be brought down at least every 4 hours until the lag/timeout/everything else issues are worked out? What's 5 minutes compared to hours of non playable gaming time? Giving us boost weekends is not fixing the problem guys. We appreciate the boosts but what good are they if you can't even play the game?

If you think 4 hour resets would help the game keep bumping this thread. Perhaps Trion will see it if it get enough attention.

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[1B63C8E0109425B]

how about restart every 10 minitues lets get real people. lets just recycle the hardware then and call it quits.

The hardware they are running can run 8 months or better lest updates without a restart then need to pull their head out of their bums and fix the issues

They cut corners to deep and theh ceo' took to much home in their contrat agreements. there is nothing left for the game or the servers..

they want you to put in more in the store so they can take home a percentage and throw the scraps to the servers and the dlc.

everything is gone.

I am hoping there is still to bid on at the auctions when the trusties pull the plug and say thats it.

[greenmonster714]

how about restart every 10 minitues lets get real people. lets just recycle the hardware then and call it quits.

The hardware they are running can run 8 months or better lest updates without a restart then need to pull their head out of their bums and fix the issues

They cut corners to deep and theh ceo' took to much home in their contrat agreements. there is nothing left for the game or the servers..

they want you to put in more in the store so they can take home a percentage and throw the scraps to the servers and the dlc.

everything is gone.

I am hoping there is still to bid on at the auctions when the trusties pull the plug and say thats it.

I doubt they will scrap the game. It is in dire need of help. No doubt about that but I gotta have some faith that they will get this right....sometime and I hope soon. I personally have over 1200hrs in this game and enjoy it very much. I hope your wrong...Mr. 1B63C8E0109425B;1245469.

[JoHnStArRrR]

I hate to break the news to you but the restarts don't improve anything no matter how long it is. Actually makes it worse cause they shut all the servers down then as they slowly bring them back, each server is flooded with peeps AND THATS WHEN TIMEOUTS OCCUR THE MOST!!!!

You do also know that some peeps can't play during kiddie hours so how fair would that be for the server to go down for 4 hours at 2 am reset???

[greenmonster714]

I hate to break the news to you but the restarts don't improve anything no matter how long it is. Actually makes it worse cause they shut all the servers down then as they slowly bring them back, each server is flooded with peeps AND THATS WHEN TIMEOUTS OCCUR THE MOST!!!!

You do also know that some peeps can't play during kiddie hours so how fair would that be for the server to go down for 4 hours at 2 am reset???

If you've played this game on console for very long you can not miss the fact that once the servers are reset the game does indeed run better. I dunno why but it does.

I don't have a clue as to where you came up with the 4hr long reset comment. Most of the time when the server is brought down for a quick restart it take about 5min. So, adult and kiddie hours won't miss a beat. Time outs occur anytime and during any activity while in the game. It seems that it happens most frequently when you are chasing ark falls but it can happen at anytime whether your character is idle or active.

[Inferno78]

If you've played this game on console for very long you can not miss the fact that once the servers are reset the game does indeed run better. I dunno why but it does.

The servers run better because the cache is reset. the more data that is kept in the cache, the slower it is to process

[1B63C8E0109425B]

The servers run better because the cache is reset. the more data that is kept in the cache, the slower it is to process

I am sorry to corect you the servers are not pcs like you use. The servers have tmp directories and are quite able to manage disk space, users, sessions and proscess.

Restarting the server does not correct the issure.

You can run the poop out of these servers and not have an issue so why does Trion have an issue, I can pull view after view, they don't transfer image files the are doing game packets between XBOX's all the information sits on the Xbox. That data also resides on their servers on a DB server. So you have to ask your self when will they fix they issue. Well part of it is the fat bloated code they are running this is server intensive. That's why they restart the server they think by restarting the server it would correct all the lost file handles and process handles. It does not and wont and never will!!!!

Properly configured servers only need to be restarted if there is an OS Patch like the three below

I did not post the Linux version IP blocks etc at belongs to the customers.

below is a live production server I manage this is its uptime after a patch to the sever Woooooooooooo holy shiiiiiiiiizzzzzittttt

Now what has this server not been rebooted yet.

27 days


Current Time: Monday, 09-Sep-2013 09:50:48 CDTRestart Time: Monday, 12-Aug-2013 11:16:18 CDTParent Server Generation: 18Server uptime: 27 days 22 hours 34 minutes 30 secondsTotal accesses: 17424423 - Total Traffic: 150.2 GBCPU Usage: u4.83 s.33 cu115.73 cs0 - .00501% CPU load7.22 requests/sec - 65.2 kB/second - 9.0 kB/request10 requests currently being processed, 9 idle workersC.K..K._._..K.K_.K_._._K_..._....W.K...C_.. .....................
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Scoreboard Key:
"_" Waiting for Connection, "S" Starting up, "R" Reading Request,
"W" Sending Reply, "K" Keepalive (read), "D" DNS Lookup,
"C" Closing connection, "L" Logging, "G" Gracefully finishing,
"I" Idle cleanup of worker, "." Open slot with no current process



22 days after a patch still going


Current Time: Monday, 09-Sep-2013 09:54:09 CDT
Restart Time: Sunday, 18-Aug-2013 06:05:09 CDT
Parent Server Generation: 292
Server uptime: 22 days 3 hours 49 minutes
Total accesses: 438845 - Total Traffic: 3.1 GB
CPU Usage: u416.65 s47.94 cu.76 cs.2 - .0243% CPU load
.229 requests/sec - 1724 B/second - 7.3 kB/request
54 requests currently being processed, 8 idle servers GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG_GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG_GGGWGG GGG_W___W_G_..
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Scoreboard Key:
"_" Waiting for Connection, "S" Starting up, "R" Reading Request,
"W" Sending Reply, "K" Keepalive (read), "D" DNS Lookup,
"L" Logging, "G" Gracefully finishing, "." Open slot with no current process


Holy poop this one has not been restarted for "uptime: 214 days 6 hours 3 minutes 52 secondsTotal 214 days"


Current Time: Monday, 09-Sep-2013 10:01:10 CDTRestart Time: Thursday, 07-Feb-2013 02:57:17 CSTParent Server Generation: 905Server uptime: 214 days 6 hours 3 minutes 52 secondsTotal accesses: 8704384 - Total Traffic: 284.5 GBCPU Usage: u78.3 s5.25 cu.02 cs0 - .000451% CPU load.47 requests/sec - 16.1 kB/second - 34.3 kB/request1 requests currently being processed, 9 idle workers_____.__.._.....W...._..................... .....................
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Scoreboard Key:
"_" Waiting for Connection, "S" Starting up, "R" Reading Request,
"W" Sending Reply, "K" Keepalive (read), "D" DNS Lookup,
"C" Closing connection, "L" Logging, "G" Gracefully finishing,
"I" Idle cleanup of worker, "." Open slot with no current process