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Latency

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 1:48 pm
by Lhowon
Just a heads up, I don't know whether this is because of my location (Northwest Ohio), or what have you, but I'm getting really bad latency / ping time on minecraft.novylen.net. I ran a ping test just to be sure of other sites, and they were ok, so I'm fairly confident it's not my network. I was seeing more dropped packets and heavier latency earlier this afternoon, but here's what I got on a random ping I just ran before posting this. Any suggestions as to what I can do to lessen this, if anything at all, would be appreciated
- Thanks, Lhowon

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37 packets transmitted, 36 packets received, 2.7% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 815.232/1201.100/1785.129/257.146 ms

Re: Latency

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 2:33 pm
by rbos
Yes, I'm getting the same issue. It starts as soon as the server software starts up, and worse as people connect.

I'm honestly baffled by it. It shouldn't be using enough bandwidth to slow things down appreciably with one or two users connected, the CPU and memory use is no different from yesterday, and disk I/O doesn't seem unusual.

Re: Latency

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:46 pm
by Zaneo
As a reference run the older server and see how that benchmarks?

Re: Latency

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:56 pm
by rbos
I don't think I can.

I guess I could generate a fresh world and set aside this one for testing.

My outgoing pipe is pretty much redlined at maximum according to MRTG.

Re: Latency

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:57 pm
by rbos
Today has been really demoralizing. :(

Re: Latency

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 4:08 pm
by Lhowon
So is this a simple lack of bandwidth/monthly bandwidth cap, or just mysterious gnomes in the cables? Either way, I really appreciate your effort rbos, you're a top notch server admin considering the situation.

Re: Latency

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 4:24 pm
by Tiel424
rbos wrote:Today has been really demoralizing. :(
9/11
nuff said.