Recent bouts of server lag

[Conan The Conqueror]

I'm US East Coast and I play mostly EST evenings. Generally between 6pm and 12am. The lag is pretty consistent at these times, but I will also mention that if I'm up early on say a Sat. morning with 6 Euro players or something, I still recall there being an issue.

I'm within 3-5 miles of the server (unless the location changed sometime in the last few months), so ping is usually 15-30.

[Capricious]

Well it's not consistent lag as if the ping is high. It's fits and starts where everything seems fine, then you wind up waiting several seconds to open a door, or for text you've typed to show up. From what I'm seeing it's like this all times of the day, and how many people are online doesn't seem to matter all that much. The only time I see it change is when there's a big DM event like an invasion, but that's always going to be the case.

[Equinox]

I hadn't noticed it at all untill today. between the hours of 4pm GMT and 6pm GMT I was lagging on and off. When I attempted to quest. The lag was so bad, on an off every 20 seconds or so.
 
I am a UK player. While I expect lag every so often, today was equal to that of the lag i'd expect during a ziggurat invasion with the whole of the world there.

[Crod Mondoon]

It seems pretty random, I have been on all hours of the day last two days due to work stoppage irl, and it is consistently bad lag. Questing, conversations, transitions. Then, mysteriously, there will be lag free times.  They do not last long. (the lag free times)

[Grudgen]

I have to say, today even I've seen the lag. It's around every couple minutes, a small freezing.

[ExileStrife]

between the hours of 4pm GMT and 6pm GMT I was lagging on and off

Thank you.  This is closer to what I mean by exact time.

It would be amazing if somebody could report exactly whey they run into some of these spikes.  Something like, "it just lagged 10 minutes ago at 5:23 pm GMT."

[VanillaPudding]

Happening now at 12:30 PM GMT -7 in a pretty bad way. 2-5 second delays, errors on clients entering as well. (Leged, to be specific)

[Conan The Conqueror]

Experiencing lag right now. 1:27pm EST. 18 players online, no DMs.

Trying to move things in my inventory, takes 3-5 seconds for an item to move.

[Conan The Conqueror]

Is it possible to determine your ping to the server while in game? I would like to see if there are any consistent spikes in ping.

So some udpated information: Been playing around with all kinds of different things. Checked to see if my AVG was messing with NWN, but that turned out to be a No.

However I did notice something peculiar. People have been saying for a while now that you can't see EFU's server on gamespy in the PW Story channel, though you can still see the server status in your history or your favorites list. The peculiar thing I noticed is that normally just clicking once on the server listing will refresh  the ping of the server listed there. However, in EFU's case, this does not happen.

I went to several other servers and just logged in and out, then I checked to see if I could get their pings to refresh. All of them did, except EFU.

Eventually EFU would refresh but this would take a while. And a few times, the server would show up as being offline in my history listing, even though it was still up and running. After a few moments it would reappear and have -1 as a ping before things settled down and I could see the normal ping numbers again.

[ExileStrife]

Oh, I know why it can't be seen in gamespy.   Grr

[SawyerTheCleaner]

There's been a noticeable amount of lag in the past 3 hours.

Sunday, 26 Sep, 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM EST

[Conan The Conqueror]

8:45 am EST the server is showing a considerable amount of lag. Spurts that last 3-5 seconds, and they happen every few moments.

Not sure if it matters any, but today is probably the worst I have seen of the lag in the last 2 weeks.

[SawyerTheCleaner]

Sunday, 26 SEP, 1:50 PM EST.

Huge lag spike, half the players ended up disconnecting from the server.

[xxWhisperingWindsxx]

just had a NASTY lag spike that disconnected me and then showed the server as offline.  When I tried to load EFUSL this was the error I got.

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 110 in /home/efudms/escapefromunderdark.com/efusl/poc.php on line 25
Error connecting


Server seems to be back up now though

[Jayde Moon]

Crazy lag, 11pm, PST

No error messages.