[KC-Justin]

Hi,

DICE have released Server Update R18 with the following changes:

- Fixed the most common server crash. The story behind this one is fairly convoluted:

When a player begins the process of joining a server, the server will begin buffering some kinds of information in anticipation of the player completing the loading & joining phase. However, players sometimes get stuck in the loading screen. This makes the server buffer more and more info for that player. A side effect of this is a temporary resource leak in the game server. The leak is immediately restored if the server changes map, or the player completes loading, or the player shuts down the game client. However if a player manages to remain stuck for 30+ minutes in loading on a server with lots of activity and the server doesn’t end the round, then the server could run out of the particular resource – it would then crash.

The new server version will forcibly disconnect clients which are threatening to exhaust that particular resource. With this change in place, we do not know of anything that would make high-ticket servers less stable than normal-ticket servers.

- Long banlists will not crash the server:

The banlist supports up to 10.000 entries now.
The banList.list command has been modified to return at most 100 entries at a time (similar to how BC2 PC’s banList.list command works).
Any administrative tools will need to be updated to be able to see more than the first 100 entries.

- Corrections to the banlist documentation

The new server administrator documentation can be found here: http://static.cdn.ea...ministrator.zip


R18 can be installed by logging into the Game Panel and going to Game Servers > BF3 > Game Updates and the R18 patch is available there.

This is an optional patch for this evening but all game servers will be required to be running the latest release by mid day Wednesday, 25th January, if no major issues are found. As such, we will force all instances that have not been updated to R18 around that time.

[KC-Justin]

Scratch that. R18 has been pulled pending an issue with the patch.

[stutuk]

I really hope this fixes the crashes (when they sort it out) because our 64 player server is crashing alot since the last patch.

This post has been edited by stutuk: 23 January 2012 - 11:12 PM