Invalid Pointer Operation

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basically we started gettin this error 2day, and every time it lags ingame everything stops for abotu 20secs, and this error pops up....

'Invalid Pointer operation'

Any ideas wot this is? or how to fix it plz....?

thx in advance....
 

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added in about 250mobs in numa cave

added a few changes to qfunction

few mapinfo name changes

nothing that we havnt done before...


we're gonna try bootin up with a basic qfunction + then with no mobs spawnin later to see if either of them are causin the problems. i cant see why spawns would cause problems tho... i redid mongen from scratch so there wouldnt be loads of useless mobs spawnin causin lag...
 
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It's a pretty general error, just remove what you added piece by piece.

I'd start with q-Function but it could be as simple as a spelling mistake in the mongen
 
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think we have fixed.... SQL was runnin like 7services tuma said, he stoped em and seems ok now

will post again if lag starts
 
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Bon

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Intel P4 2.8Ghz
1024 Megs DDR2 Ram
80 Gig 70rpm hard drive
Choice of Operating system (Win xp-pro or linux)
Either Remote Desktop or shell access
Connection: 10 Gig Dark Fibre interlink


hes offered to upgrade to

2.8 dual xeon with 2gig ram for another £30 - will that be worth it? or still think its gonna lag?

ive never heard ofa dual xeon so no idea how good that is lol
 
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Will be another 30 per month.

Dual xeon is basically pretty good lol. Not sure if it would stop it. Just would help it along a lot.

Dont have errors on m2server by any chance do you?
 
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my last machine had 2gig of ram on a p4 machine running tds files and i was running out of mem constantly so in the end we shared the hard disk as mem and sorted it for a little while but never stoped it running out.

now we have duel core amd with 4 gig ram we are running at just over 2.3 gig in ram when fully loaded with 80 players so just an insight as to what yo may need.

and good luck with server if you need any help give us a tinkle on pm.
 
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Bon

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is duel xeon similar to duel core? (seems a pretty obvious answer i know)

so basiaclly need liek 3gig ram? and a duel core CPU?


@km only error is that invalid pointer operation
 
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Hmmm you should not need that much ram. Torozor 1.9 used to be hosted on 3x 256 mb of ram it was a high rates with a fair amount of members + mob spawns. Your goin to say sql causes it to use so much right? Well maybe there could be a code error somewhere in the files?
 
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Hmmm you should not need that much ram. Torozor 1.9 used to be hosted on 3x 256 mb of ram it was a high rates with a fair amount of members + mob spawns. Your goin to say sql causes it to use so much right? Well maybe there could be a code error somewhere in the files?


yes sql is useing more ram than db commander has hense the problems ppl are haveing with ram and lagg issues.
 
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each reboot set the dbserver to realtime and the m2server to low in task manager.
or is that dbserver to low and m2server to realtime , sorry im not exactly certain now . but that should help a bit if.

If someone else knows about this could they post the right way to do it.
 
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Bon

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each reboot set the dbserver to realtime and the m2server to low in task manager.
or is that dbserver to low and m2server to realtime , sorry im not exactly certain now . but that should help a bit if.

If someone else knows about this could they post the right way to do it.
wouldnt u set m2server to realtime and others to low?

realtime = runs as fast as possible or w/e isnt it?
 
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im not sure m8 thats why6 i asked if someone knew the right way round.

the DBServer needs to keep char info updated all the time where as the m2server just loads once and thats it.
 
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