Is there a specific reason about why the server is about 75% offline the entire day? Right now I’ve waited a full two hours. Most of the time when I get home from school the server is offline. It’s only fully on for the rest of the night after 8:00 PM where I live, and this is an issue. I am a huge fan of the survival server, and it’s most likely because of updates, but it is almost never on. Is there a specific time when it’s usually on?
Well you see we use a sever software called bukkit. This is not yet fully and completely updated so we are using a non-stable version of it, And most of the plugins are not updated. Thus causing memory to leak then the sever crashes. _andy (the sever owner) lives in Australia and he and _specicalk are the only people who can bring the sever back online. Unless you want the sever to be offline all day long we are gonna have to deal with these things. We really cant do anything until they wake up. Im sorry believe me I hate when the sever is down too but please dont post any more of these type of posts, just go to here: http://projectcitybuild.com/forum/index.php?topic=1731.0
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Sorry to reply to this, but I made a VB Program exactly for this kind of problem. I was on a server before, and got frustrated it keeps going down and never going back up until the owner comes. That’s why I made that VB program.
If andy or special would like to try it, I can post it here.
[size=8pt]*Requires .NET Framework 4.
A few problems:
a. the server runs on CentOS Linux, and we’d have to emulate a .exe
b. the server crashes because the memory leaks from the server to the point in which there is no longer any more available RAM. Having a program reboot Bukkit would not work as there is no available RAM for it to launch (hence it would not work). The only current way to actually get the server back up after it crashes is to reboot the entire box
I see, then I guess we can only wait for the stable version of bukkit to get the server running without crashes.
If only there were a way to run that program when the RAM is low. Does the box not have an event trigger system like windows has?
Not that I know of. As far as I know, the only “event trigger” is to schedule CronJobs and build scripts to run periodically.
I’ve also now scheduled the server to restart every 4 hours if no players are online. That might help keep the (Bukkit) server’s allocated ram down.