Valve Crashed All Tf2 Servers Today

[Mana 3,867]

How nice of them, guess they are working on updating it for polycount/adding trading.

#0  0xffffe430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x473fadf0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x473fc701 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x4743328b in __libc_message () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x4743b595 in _int_free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x4743b9d9 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#6  0xf77a2bcf in CStdMemAlloc::Free () from ./bin/libtier0.so
#7  0xf45cb711 in GCSDK::CRecordVar::Cleanup ()
  from /home/srcds/orangebox/tf/bin/server.so
#8  0xf3e0bb17 in CPersistentItem::~CPersistentItem ()
  from /home/srcds/orangebox/tf/bin/server.so
#9  0xf45c8da3 in GCSDK::CSharedObjectTypeCache::~CSharedObjectTypeCache ()
  from /home/srcds/orangebox/tf/bin/server.so
#10 0xf45c66d4 in GCSDK::CSharedObjectCache::~CSharedObjectCache ()
  from /home/srcds/orangebox/tf/bin/server.so
#11 0xf45a57a1 in GCSDK::CGCClient::RemoveSOCache ()
  from /home/srcds/orangebox/tf/bin/server.so
#12 0xf45aa46b in GCSDK::CGCSOCacheUnsubscribedJob::BYieldingRunGCJob ()
  from /home/srcds/orangebox/tf/bin/server.so
#13 0xf3e033da in GCSDK::CGCClientJob::BYieldingRunJobFromMsg ()
  from /home/srcds/orangebox/tf/bin/server.so
#14 0xf45abee5 in GCSDK::CJob::BRunProxy ()
  from /home/srcds/orangebox/tf/bin/server.so

9:54 PM - L | Mana: Don't they have a private item/universe thingy

9:54 PM - L | Mana: Shouldn't they be testing it there?

9:54 PM - AzuiSleet: Testing? what's that

9:54 PM - L | Mana: Right

[Oww My Nose 19]

They're testing. They've actually streamlined the process, eliminating the need for alpha and beta builds at all.

[Mana 3,867]

They crashed them all again yesterday :/. So that's twice in one night... yay.

[Mana 3,867]

They crashed them again. Seems like similar time to yesterday. Maybe all the servers and clients will crash again at midnight as well.

Neph was bitching about it on IRC last week. Fun times.

He thinks people still use IRC, psh. That's like so... 1990's.

[ReconPWN 10]

Enough said.

[Mana 3,867]

And again today!

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=16991285

[Rolooooooooo 2]

quick someone engage the hyperdrive, contact dark helmet, and plot the course for Valve. We're taking all the hats and nobody can stop us:rolleyes:

[Mana 3,867]

We think we have this fixed now. The gameservers were getting into a state where restarting part of the Steam service would cause them to crash. In fact, the second crash on Sunday morning (10:58am PDT) was caused by pushing the fix live. We restarted that part of Steam this morning at 10:40am PDT and there were no reports of servers crashing en mass around that time, so we should be good.

From this point forward, if you see any more instances of many servers crashing at once, please send me callstacks or crash dump files and I'll take a look.

Joe Ludwig

Hopefully they fixed it now.