[Kybber]

Oooo, the snappiness - I love it!

I will be extra alert over the next few days for
changes in stability etc. Hopefully, as you said, the
problem mentioned above will be over now.

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[Kybber]

[fluk]

I have the same problem; Im in the EU server too.
Yesterday I had this problem and read you here ... closing and starting gamecreate solved the problem.

Today (2 hours ago) I have seen 3 of my game servers offline; perhaps because they restart every day at 5am and they stop but not go online. I dont know. Again closing and starting gamecreate solved the situation.

Perhaps we can have a solution scheduling a restart of gamecreate every X-hours. I dont how can i do it . Any software to schedule stops and starts ?? ... I think windows scheduling can not do it,

Because it seems that if the master server go offline or stop connection, it must be restarted manually gamecreate.

[Kybber]

Restarting GC helps sometimes, but not always. I suppose
it depends on whether the master server is actually down
or completely refusing connections, in which case a restart
of the client obviously won't help, or if the master server
is just not accepting the specific client's attempts at
connecting, for whatever reason. In the latter case, maybe
the client itself goes into a loop or carries with it some
misconfiguration like a corrupted ssl-key, which means
that a restart is both needed and sufficient for a
successful reconnect.

[Andrew]

We are looking into it.

But can you see if stability has changed now? We are monitoring the server and conducting a few tests.

[gh0std0g]

[Kybber]

After only a couple of days, I don't have a very
strong statistical foundation, but host do seem like
they keep a much better connection now. Yes, they
do disconnect every now and then (quite frequently,
actually), but only for very short periods of time,
like a minute or two, not hours like before. This
seems to happen about every hour: 6-8 servers
disconnect, then they all reconnect 1-2 minutes
later.

This is a typical scenarioe:

[Kybber]

I just ran a quick test: I killed the GC client at
00:18 local time (CET). The web-based log shows
that the server went offline at 01:30. I then restarted
GC at 00:21. It was reported as online at 01:31.
Seems this is not just a simple timezone-issue.

[fluk]

since my last post GC has not been restarted and everything its running fine for me and my server.

[Andrew]

Kybber: Thanks, the clock was off an hour or so - It's been corrected.

[Kybber]

Cheers, that was quick

However, just as a test I killed GC again on one of
the hosts. That was 25 minutes ago, and it still
hasn't been listed as being down. I assume that's
because there's already a timestamp from this
host about 40 minutes ahead in time, so that
lastContact > now() - delay is true for a while
further? Don't know if this should be considered a
bug, but it's possibly somewhat of a weakness.
But as long as the clock doesn't for some silly
reason jump forward by a significant amount of
time, it shouldn't pose a problem.

[Andrew]

It will update the host timestamp in a few minutes for existing ones.

The clients themselves will auto-reconnect in a few minutes anyway if they cannot receive a ping/pong, so don't worry about it.

[Kybber]

It appears the disconnects is still an issue, although
not as big a problem as before. We now have a
non-reconnecting disconnect every 2-3 days. It
generally goes like this, starting with the 5 o'clock
server restart:

[Andrew]

How long is 'and so on'? If you wait a few minutes, does it work, or can it sit there like that for hours?

[Kybber]

In this case I restarted GC right after posting (11:07
CET), so 6 hours.