Scheduled server reboots

I suggest scheduled server reboots at least 2x per day. I'm sure you all agree that the server has been extremely laggy for few days now and it could've been prevented with few reboots per day. I've heard that now the server host reboots the server manually whenever he is online/home/and the server gets laggy.

If you are concerned about the major rp events going on the server and how it would be disturbed by the server reboots. Ofc you can easily switch the reboot script off.

Btw is the server running on dedicated server machine/and on what OS/and what kind of a connection we have to server?

I agree that some scheduled reboots would be great, but it would take a bit of work to set up. That's not to say it won't ever happen, but it won't happen now.

The lag on the server had been a bit of a problem, but a lot of this was due to a few little issues that we've since cleaned up. Yesterday's boot wasn't perfect, but it seemed far better to me; for the most part, while I was playing, it was at least reasonably smooth. (And today's boot should smooth things out even a little more, I imagine.)

I don't know the details of the server offhand, but I know that it's running on a decent machine on a connection that I'm frankly jealous of. FrostWolf will have to tell you more, if he cares to share.

For what it's worth, I'm fairly certain that the server machine is not the problem though. Again, we're making improvements, and the general consensus seems to be that it's getting better (though we're still not quite perfect yet).

Yesterday it was a pain, even close after the reboot, but this morning even tho the server been up for a very long time it wasent to laggy, it really improved.

That's totally not what I meant. The point was to create a simple script that reboots the server on a certain time of day automatically. This would prevent the 15h lag sessions and also make the hosts personal life a bit easier. Its not a complaint, its a constructive suggestion to make everyone enjoy playing as much as possible. That is exactly what it would provide.

Hope you will take building up server reboot script to consideration. I don't see any major problem with this and I know its commonly used and working fine.

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Yeah, I know what you mean, nipsumyy. It will be taken into consideration.

I like the idea of scheduled boots. There have been some lag recently, but after reboot things have gone smoothly. If its possible to make a script, as said above, or something like that, I think that the problem would be solved.

I have seen many servers working with scheduled boots, why wouldn't this one work.

nipsumyy wrote:

Btw is the server running on dedicated server machine/and on what OS/and what kind of a connection we have to server?

The server is running on a dedicated server machine for the sole purpose of NWN, wich in kind uses Windows XP and has a 100/100mbit internet connection.

I started playing a week or so after the launch of the server. From then to now ive seen alot of improvments regarding the server's lag issues. And for only being up a few week's now there has been quite the bit changed. I wanna thank all of the building/modding team here for all your effort on making things easier on the players to play here. Keep in mind nipsumyy if your from the U.S you may have more lag then most everyone else whom lives closer to the host. The server if im not mistaken is hosted in sweden, there for since I live in the U.S heh, lag is my worst enemie. But I hope to keep seeing extra changes to reduce the lag for us, and thanks and keep up the good work team

The issue with this for those of you suggesting a "simple script" is that the script is not so simple at all. Getting a server to reboot at a specific time is easy. To accomplish this applications are forced to exit however, and you probably don't want the Server forced to exit in the middle of saving your characters because if that happens it will corrupt a good portion of the character files. Not a big deal if backups are turned on, but no one likes having to dig out and replace the .bics with backups on a regular basis.

So you have to weigh the time taken to write a complex script that will ensure the server shuts down completely and properly and then restart vs all that time being spent on something far more interesting to both you and the admins like new content/areas/bug fixes.