Saturday 19th May 2012 Server Stress Test

[5./JG27.Farber]

Saturday 19th May 2012 Server Stress Test 21:00 GMT Storm of War Campaigns Server.

DATE CHANGED^

BETA + HOTFIX.

Hello all,
This Saturday 19th we would like to stress test our server for our forth comming Storm of War Campaigns: Battle of Britian multi-sqaudron event. The idea is literally to make the server crash! There will be two air spawns - 2 Red, 2 Blue. These will be near Dover. There will also be a constant spawning of AI bombers which will get progressivley heavier. Infinate ammo will be on. It will be carnage! :-P We would apprciate as many people as possible to attend. We are looking for 100, with up to 100 AI.

If the server crashes, please return in 10 mins or so annd it should be back up for another try. We have absolutley no idea what will happen!

Plese leave any feed back here including the time it happened. The time is important as this will let us know how many players and how many AI is feasable!

Many thanks!

;)

[bw_wolverine]

Sounds like a blast. And unlimited .303s!? COUNT ME IN!

[Ataros]

WOW!
If you could log CPU cores load and traffic it may be a good case study for the devs for future improvements.

[_79_dev]

We well record that indeed, and also live stats will be avilable...

[ATAG_Dutch]

Please confirm 9.00pm GMT as opposed to 9.00pm British summertime?

[5./JG27.Farber]

9pm British time... Summer time... ;)

[5./JG27.Farber]

Something came up and we have had to change the date. Please see OP.

[macro]

Will be there, sounds like fun

[5./JG27.Farber]

Good, we did a little test last night of the mission to be used. It was smooth as silk even with the large formations, so AI dont really seem to be a limiting factor as much as Human players... O well we will see.

Please spread the word people! :P

BETA + HOTFIX.

[DroopSnoot]

No.501_Bigpickle signing in. See you there.

[lensman1945]

I haven't flown any Co-Op missions yet..but I'm happy to sign in and blunder around to make the numbers up!:grin:

[5./JG27.Farber]

The more the merrier.

Tonights the night!

And thanks to Dutch from ATAG:

Just so you transatlantic types are aware, I checked with Farber and it's 9.00pm British summertime, so 3.00pm on the central clocks as you're still 6 hrs behind us.

There will be two airspawns, one near Canterbury for red and one in the channel for blue, there are ground spawns as well.

[Plt Off JRB Meaker]

Great Stuff,count me in,we will rise to the challenge:grin:

[epoch]

So just to confirm (since the OP was changed and I didn't see what it was before) it's now 21:00 GMT which is 22:00 British Summer Time, which is what we're on now in Blighty?

[5./JG27.Farber]

9PM tonight mate.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Farber, do you have any plans for TS for tonight?

[bw_wolverine]

Champions League Final might delay a few folks...

[5./JG27.Farber]

Farber, do you have any plans for TS for tonight?

Just ATAG TS as normal.

[ATAG_Dutch]

just atag ts as normal.

kk ;)

[ATAG_MajorBorris]

I have to take the wife to the zoo:cry:

[theOden]

Sounds totally insane - I'll be there :)
(with 10 mins intervals I guess haha)

[5./JG27.Farber]

I have to take the wife to the zoo:cry:

She cant be that bad Borris... :-P Bam bom, TISH!

[5./JG27.Farber]

This starts in 10 mins! :-P

[Plt Off JRB Meaker]

Got into the server but there were no flags to choose sides,tried several times but the flags did'nt show up,pity:(...............and listening in to Teamspeak,I was'nt alone.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Yea Septic came and explained this. I sure thats an old bug and not server related. In my experience this happens on all servers and you really have to wait for the map and other info to load properly and then give it a min for it not to crash the windows...

From what I heard from my guys it was fairly positive. At one point I was bouncing spits from 3 groups of JU88's, each group being 9 Ju88's. The frame rate was good enough and I was able to fight. I really just went mindlessly after those spits to really hammer my own machines performance. It was workable.

I think at the peak there was 27 players... Screenshots of the CPU load etc comming soon. However he did tell me the server was only using one core. A product of using console maybe?

[ATAG_Dutch]

Hiya Farber, there's a few red team guys still flying around in there but no Blues. Have you found out what you needed to find out?

[SEE]

Considering the large numbers of AI it was very playable for the entire session.
I Didn't come across many Blues but there were about 4 -5 Reds attacking the AI formations - suprised at how well my system and the patch performed.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Hiya Farber, there's a few red team guys still flying around in there but no Blues. Have you found out what you needed to find out?

Yea sorry there was some kind of hicup between UK and the states internet because we in the UK lost connection to TS3 and the server. So sorry for leaving everyone hanging around in the server after the event! Shame only less than 30 showed up. We are still unsure if we should host for perhaps 5 or 6 squadrons aside or just 2 - 50 players a side or more like 15. One thing seems clear is that we can have lots of AI...


From memory we had
We had AI:

3 Dornier 17 @5 mins
6 He111 @10 mins
18 Ju 87 @15 mins
27 Ju88's @ 25 mins

ramping up over time... All spawning near dover (the centre of the action) around 50km - 90km away before returing to land in france except for the last 27 Ju88's.

Considering the large numbers of AI it was very playable for the entire session.
I Didn't come across many Blues but there were about 4 -5 Reds attacking the AI formations - suprised at how well my system and the patch performed.

Same here, Im a glass half empty guy so it was quite a suprise. I even went hell for leather after spits to stress the performance of my own machine. Some very slight unsmoothness but playable for dogfighting! Which is very important.


Thank you to all who participated. Please feel free to leave feed back here! Good bad or indifferent!

[Fenrisflyer]

Would have been there if not for the CL finals conflict.

[ATAG_Septic]

Hi Chaps,

I had no problems in game at all, I flew three missions and it was all very smooth, even when attacking a large formation of JU87s and whilst getting shot down too! :)

I did get the no-flags error, which I've had before but this was different, completely unshiftable, no amount of logging in or out or waiting etc would shift it.

Altogether though it bodes well for the server! :)

Cheers chaps,

Septic.

[ATAG_Dutch]

I echo Septic's statement.
The game seemed very smooth, and I wouldn't put it down to only 30 or so players. There've been many times on the ATAG server with 30 or so players that since 'the patch' didn't seem quite so smooth.

I also had a bloody good time while it lasted, so thanks you chaps.

Hope to see more of this kind of thing (although unlimited ammo is going to give me all kinds of bad habits! :grin:)

Thanks again fellas. ;)

[SEE]

I forgot to check (too busy cherry picking...:grin:) - were clouds enabled Farber?

[5./JG27.Farber]

I think so.

[_79_dev]

clouds were enabled...confirmed in config file

[bw_wolverine]

It seemed to run fairly well for us as well. Didn't see much action, but only had one little warp and that was it over a period of 20 minutes or so flying at 18,000 ft.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Around the 20th minute mark is when the 27 JU88's spawned in West of Griz Niz.


http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af321/farber82/SoWC/test.jpg

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af321/farber82/SoWC/test1.jpg

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af321/farber82/SoWC/test3.jpg

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af321/farber82/SoWC/test4.jpg

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af321/farber82/SoWC/test5.jpg

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af321/farber82/SoWC/test6.jpg

[Pitti]

I tried to join the battle many times but I wasn't able to select a team since the flags never showed up.
Normally I have to reconnect to see the flags, but this time nothing worked (reconnect, restart CLOD, direct connect, restart steam).

[5./JG27.Farber]

From the feed back we have recieved and the performance, weve decided to lauch our Storm of War Campaigns: Battle of Britian. Look out for a start date soon! :-P

[Jugdriver]

I did get down into the teens while attacking the 111s but there was a lot going on at that point. The bombers had just made landfall by Deal, there were At least eight fighters in the area and flack, so I was not surprised at the loss of FPS and I was still able to make a succsessful attack.

JD
AKA_MattE

[StiC]

Like others here, I was not able to select a side. Made several attempts by restarting, ect., but nothing helped.

[5./JG27.Farber]

All you people who could not select sides could you recreate this bug please by going into a populated server and try click the flags before they appear and before the map has loaded. In my experience you get the same effect. If you wait for everything in the menu to load fully before clicking anything it will be fine 9/10... ;)

I think the slow loading of menus may have been caused by our admin. The remote access was using 33% of the traffic to the server. Obviously in the future he will only set in running and then leave it for the course of the mission so it should not be a problem in future.