Suddenly having massive game ping

Dillius · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 119

Just been playing a little America's Army and Enemy Territory, when all of a sudden starting a few hours ago I began to have incredibly high ping. I usually have an optimum of 40-60 on lowest ping games, but now all i'm finding are 200+. I've tried restarting my router and my computer, but no dice. I did recently install Shorewall, but I would have believed it would not have begun act like this just suddenly.

I did strangely notice that eth1 was moved to an IRQ of 217... that seems a little high. I've never seen those interrupts assigned to those numbers before. Also, even though my grub is as follows:

kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hdc3 acpi=off

acpi is still turning itself on automatically and being assigned an irq.

This strange event seems to only be affecting my games. I'm pretty clueless about this right now.

Mnemia · Guru Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 476

You say that this only affects your games? What happens when you manually try to ping some of the game servers and other sites such as google.com from the command line? Are the pings still just as high?

Dillius · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 119

It seems like it's just inside these games. Also now it's seeming like the whole game is bogging down, but I can't think of anything I would have merged recently that would have had any effect with the exception of possibly shorewall, and like I said I've had that going for a couple days until this problem finally showed itself.

I did recetnly upgrade to nptl and the new headers... but by recently I mean about 2 weeks, so again I expect I would have been feeling the effects long before now.

EDIT:

Wierd stuff in my dmesg output that I noticed:

ioctl32(armyops-bin:28468): Unknown cmd fd(97) cmd(80a04520){00} arg(ffff8f98) on /dev/input/event0
ioctl32(armyops-bin:28468): Unknown cmd fd(97) cmd(80a04520){00} arg(ffff8f98) on /dev/input/event1
ioctl32(armyops-bin:28468): Unknown cmd fd(103) cmd(408c6445){00} arg(ffffa410) on /dev/dri/card0
ioctl32(armyops-bin:28468): Unknown cmd fd(103) cmd(408c6445){00} arg(ffff6fe0) on /dev/dri/card0
ioctl32(armyops-bin:460): Unknown cmd fd(97) cmd(80a04520){00} arg(ffff8f88) on /dev/input/event0
ioctl32(armyops-bin:460): Unknown cmd fd(97) cmd(80a04520){00} arg(ffff8f88) on /dev/input/event1
ioctl32(armyops-bin:460): Unknown cmd fd(100) cmd(408c6445){00} arg(ffffa400) on /dev/dri/card0
ioctl32(armyops-bin:5409): Unknown cmd fd(97) cmd(80a04520){00} arg(ffff8f98) on /dev/input/event0
ioctl32(armyops-bin:5409): Unknown cmd fd(97) cmd(80a04520){00} arg(ffff8f98) on /dev/input/event1
ioctl32(armyops-bin:5409): Unknown cmd fd(103) cmd(408c6445){00} arg(ffffa410) on /dev/dri/card0

To · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject:

Try to ping and traceroute the server where that happends, it may not me your problem.

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Dillius · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 119

Well unless America's Army and Wolfenstein enemy territory share the same master query server, I don't see how it could be just one server. It is every game server, and by that i mean 100s, not just a few.