Some of you have complained about lag. We have investigated and are positive that it's not a code issue but there may be a server issue. We brought our concerns to IRE and there have been some adjustments (yesterday). Have you noticed that lag has lessened?

Hopefully, we can also convince IRE to increase our RAM which may also help but that'll be a future hurdle!

Hmm. Attacked something, bled, bled, got balance back. Something's still wonky.

Oh, and it can be added that you bleed every 5.5-6s, and my balance time is about 4s. Thus, bleeding twice while regaining balance should be impossible.

What, are you sure it wasn't all just our ISP's.

Oh, be nice, you That was Eventru who said that, I believe...

I say it out of love!

That's standard lag.

Server issues are when you hang for a while (let's say the world hangs for 8s), and you still only bleed once / the mob only attacks once in that time.

That's the lag we're all complaining about, the constant stuff that hasn't actually been killing people because it slows down NPCs too.

What he said!

Estarra...you have officially made yourself my favorite IRE employee. That was frickin' hilarious!

...what?

Not necessarily. Bleeding could be on a different type of tick to balance and mob attacks. For example, in Achaea, there was a bug years ago where gremlins (a balance-stealing ent) were firing much too fast and being too hindering. The admins investigated after numerous player complaints and found nothing wrong with the scheduling code, and chalked it down to being a myth, until eventually it was discovered that gremlins were using their own special timer, separate from everything else and causing the observed effects. Also, consider my post here, with both the spidion and the chained forms definitely lagging, but somehow my momentum drops before I regain balance.

Yeah... No matter how you look at it, if bleeding fires every 5.5s-6s, and you regain balance in 4s, it should be impossible to bleed twice between hitting and regaining balance. I noticed a lag hit during that time as well.

Bah for some reason I read it as "that's what he said.". Bah....made an idiot out of myself.

Modified my client to send Core.Ping every second instead of every ten seconds. Should hopefully show some interesting things.

Okay, right now I'm getting hit massively.

And as a demonstration, this is the ping I got from GMCP:

Ping: 130
Ping: 130
Ping: 130
Ping: 130
Ping: 130
Ping: 130
Ping: 130
Ping: 130
Ping: 4824
Ping: 3824
Ping: 2825
Ping: 1825
Ping: 825
Ping: 127
Ping: 159
Ping: 149
Ping: 409
Ping: 179
Ping: 129
Ping: 133
Ping: 133

And here is what I got from my separate ping to lusternia.com during that time:

Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=129ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=128ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=128ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=129ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=128ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=128ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=129ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=128ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=128ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=129ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=128ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=128ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=129ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=128ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=130ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=129ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=129ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=129ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=130ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=128ms TTL=36
Reply from 209.212.145.235: byte=32 tid=128ms TTL=36

And another one:


Ping: 133
Ping: 133
Ping: 193
Ping: 11815
Ping: 10815
Ping: 9816
Ping: 8816
Ping: 7816
Ping: 6817
Ping: 5817
Ping: 4817
Ping: 3819
Ping: 2819
Ping: 1820
Ping: 820
Ping: 131
Ping: 131

Should I keep posting examples, or does that show that there still is a problem?

Oh, and just as comparison:

Ping: 151
A fold appears in the tapestry of fate, heralding the birth of a new year as the gods pen the next chapter into the neverending story that is Lusternia.
It is now the 1st of Estar, 307 years after the Coming of Estarra.
4730h, 4188m, 2460e, 10p elrx-ÿù
Ping: 13628
Ping: 12629
Ping: 11629
Ping: 10630
Ping: 9630
Ping: 8631
Ping: 7631
Ping: 6631
Ping: 5632
Ping: 4634
Ping: 3638
Ping: 2639
Ping: 1644
Ping: 645
Ping: 134

How are you getting a response on the ping? According to the docs, the server is not supposed to send anything back: