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Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 7

I'm at a complete loss as to why this is happening. Here's a log that happened in about six seconds of time while I was playing Achaea.

Apprentice Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 152

Sounds that you would have lot of empty triggers or one trigger that has no pattern or * as a pattern thus generating insane ammount of hits.
Try disabling triggers.
If it helps (CPU % time drops down to zero or so) then you have a trigg that has too wide "hit" area.

Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 7

As I said, I have absolutely no triggers.

I've ruled out network lag because I've tried the same mud with different clients, hence I turn to the forums for help.

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 1:34 am

Probably a corrupted setting file. Click the Edit button for your character icon and go to the Files tab. Enter a new name for the Primary Settings filename to let zMUD create a new fresh file and then see if it still happens. Also try deleting your ZMUD.INI file to restore the default preferences.

What you are seeing certainly isn't normal.

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 2:12 am

Can you export your settings and post them? That would help a great deal. Also if you let us know what MUD you're using we can be of more assistance.

Have you tried the same MUD/char with zMUD on a different PC?

[edit] Take Zugg's advice over mine. Very Happy

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

I agree with zugg. sometimes its just better to start fom scratch

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

I've actually been noticing a lock up when I first connect to my MUD in the morning. It says the:

Connected to host xxx.yyy.zzz

Then freezes for a few seconds.

Then displays the login screen in one big burst.

..... now the strange part, if I reconnect immediately or open another window to the same MUD it doesn't happen again, and for that matter, if I completely exit out of zMUD and go back in - still doesn't happen. But if I leave it for a few hours, then the lag patch happens again when I attempt to make the connection. To me this made me suspect something related to DNS lookups, when the host is cached by windows it isn't an issue, when it's not, then it has a little lock up?

So to ask you orophin - did you have a second MUD window open in the background which maybe you had lost link to (reboot, timeout?) then the auto-reconnect to that thing in the background froze up your normal session you posted above?

I mean maybe they're completely unrelated, but maybe not. In any case with CMUD around the corner and this not annoying me to any great degree since it only happens to me at login, I figured I'd see if it was present in CMUD before posting.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

rainchild you might try ipconfig /flushdns at the command line.

You might have a screwed up DNS cached record thats screwed up

Just a thought. There are a few others things that cause this in normal day to day internet. Might try doing a line quality check and dslreports.com too.. i did that and found out certain times of the day my ping doubles.

The last thing that comes to mind is much more common.

With power management features what they are now all NIC cards have the ability to set a sleep on inactivity. What happens is you have to wake them up when you go to use them again and that can cause a temp lag spike. Check your settings on your nic card to disable that. Its under the power management of the ethernet card driver. It will say allow windows to turn off this device to save power. Uncheck it save and reboot.. might help ya out

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

Yeah I don't think it's the DNS casche because it happens first thing in the morning - after the lappy boots into windows the first thing I run is zMUD. I think it's probably a lack of an entry for the MUD in the DNS cache and possibly slow DNS resolver.

It definately seems to be an issue with the client (or windows APIs) as opposed to a line quality thing, beause if I type 'sdf sdf sdf sdf sdf sdf sdf sdf sdf sdf sdf sdf' on the command line, nothing appears until the client unfreezes. Next time it happens I will check to see if it's a 100% cpu thing - ie infinite loop - or a 0% cpu thing - ie blocking 'wait for event' call.

As for the NIC - I have my lappy networked with my desktop to share the same mouse and keyboard, so the fact I was sending multiple keystrokes / mouse move events via the NIC means it wasn't in hibernate or anything like that.

Edit: It's a 0% cpu thing - so must be a blocking call of some kind.

Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 7

Well, even though it was an entirely fresh install, I did try recreating the charater file and deleting zmud.ini to no success. I've been having some trouble with my video card... any thought on how that could possibly be related?

Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 7

bump.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I also play on Achaea, and though it is rare I have seen some occassional large lags. My trigger set is sufficently extensive to say that triggers are not the problem, and that you should log a continous ping test during an offline period and review it.