Game freeze followed by character exhaustion.

[bilbous]

For the last few days I have been experiencing random game freezes lasting 30-odd seconds and followed by rapid fatigue drain and subsequent exhaustion. I am wondering if anyone else has experiences anything like this. It may be linux specific but I havre no evidence for that. It may have something to do with connections from Google as netstat revealed  http connections from po-in-f93.google.com and qb-in-f103.google.com even though my browser was not open and I am behind a firewall.

Does anyone recognize those google addresses, could this have something to do with the buddy list google gadget? I am not sure how it could be as it happened on a fresh character with no buddies.


EDIT: Doing a search for po-in-f93.google.com indicated that it is likely one of the anti-fishing sites Firefox gets updates from. I've disabled the a-f protection and if I post no more it will mean the problem has cleared up.

*edit*

I had another occurrence just now only I was not moving so lost no stamina. There were no connection from google so that wasn't it either. This one was shorter than previous but the effect was the same, no mouse in the game window, no screen update, most peculiar. Since nobody else seems to be affected I'll have to re-install and see if that fixes it or more probably learn to live with it for now.

[LigH]

So you mean it is not game server lag, but instead a client freeze? So your PC was so busy that it couldn't share computing time with psclient?

I know such behaviour from Windows, when it suddenly needs to swap maybe half of the RAM to disk or similar... Also I know such lockups when the PC is trying to read data from a damaged harddisk, which delays everything until the harddisk returned anything.

[bilbous]

Right it is a local phenomenon not a network one. At the moment I am downloading the client yet again and am going to install it on one of my other Linuxes. My Mandriva that I normally use is a bit corrupt due to too much customizing. Every Linux I have come across has had its eccentricities that annoy me and I tend to use a hammer as a screwdriver for configuration. Fortunately they come out with a new version every year for me to start fresh with. Right now I am in Fedora 7 which for some reason wants to treat all my drives as SCSI of which I actually have none. Once I get the planeshift working in F7 I'll post an update. Of course first I have to build and install the Nvidia drivers so that I have 3d performance....fortunately that is pretty easy.

Oh how lovely. Ran into one of those inconsistancies. Fedora doesn't want to build the kernel module I want, instead it wants a package from a third party repository which of course does not have a package for the Nvidia release I need. The package it had gives me that wonderful black screen. That's it for now tomorrow is Canada Day maybe I can find some nice fireworks, too bad firecrackers are not available. Maybe it is time to get one of them end of the line agp cards. Clear up a lot of headaches no doubt.

[Lanarel]

The sudden stamina loss is probably the server making you catch up. After the freeze, the server (who assumes you have been running for 30 seconds) notices the stamina did not decrease for 30 seconds, and makes it drop fast to the value it thought it should be after 30 seconds running.

[bilbous]

I believe I have fixed this it was a my Mandriva system specific error. I get overly annoyed with autorun, autoloading media, and like to mount everything in /mnt instead of /media where linuxes nowadays try to put things. Suffice it to say that I disabled the floppy in fstab and it cleared up a host of problems, it was the only thing there using supermount and the hardware might be dead to begin with, I never use it.

Wrong again Bilby! Guess I'll re-install soon enough

Re-installing ps did not help much, of course I did not uninstall it fully, I just moved the current version to another directory. I do see something unusual though in my process table, is it normal in linux to have two psc processes running? Somehow I do not think so and yet there they are! I'll have to look and see maybe one of the scripts is calling psc and another script which calls psc as well.