RESOLVED: System freeze is being caused by faulty Ethernet port. Using wifi as a work-around for now.
Title IE:S server freezing my PC!
Launcher Type Server
Modpack IE:S
Modpack version unknown (downloaded 10 Nov 2016 from FTB launcher)
Have you modified the pack? Yes
Link to log file
Details of the issue
Heyo, I've got a pretty annoying problem and I'd love some help with it, I'll be as straightforward with this as I can (LOTS OF TEXT WARNING):
THE PROBLEM:
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Recently my IE:S server has been totally freezing the host PC. This happens without warning, usually within half an hour of connecting to it (although it sometimes , and there's no way to restore the PC without a forced restart. Nothing unusual shows up in logs or crash reports at all, no crash report generated.
This setup worked fine initially, then started happening after about 4/5 days. Overwriting the server (not the world) files with a backup seems to stop it for several hours, but it always comes back. Server initially had 4gb RAM dedicated to it, changed it to 2gb, no difference.
THE SETUP:
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The server runs on my laptop, and I connect to it and play from another machine. The two machines are connected via 15m ethernet cable. Neither machine has internet access. Both run windows 7. I've added AromaBackup and Crafting Tweaks to my server mods.
THE HOST MACHINE:
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The server is run on an old laptop, with 8gb RAM (recently upgraded) & 1.6GHz i7 8-core processor, running Java 8.
The CMOS battery has been replaced with a battery that doesn't properly fit the socket, and is held in with adhesive substance called prestik (commonly used to stick posters to walls - don't know what they call it in the US!).
I recently re-applied thermal paste to the CPU & GUP and cleaned the fans, still freezing.
A lot of the USB ports and even the ethernet port can be a little dodgy, sometimes I need to disable & re-enable the ethernet port for it to connect to the "network".
The battery is dead, and so it runs on the charger only.
THE QUIRKS:
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Other oddities I've encountered: The FTB Utilities auto-backup service stopped working on that particular world a few days before this started happening. I replaced it with AromaBackup to keep the backups rolling. Also, this crashing only happens when I'm playing on it, it never crashes when left to run with no players online, even when left for 20+ hours.
The save file has now been transferred to my main machine and is running on a localhost server, so far no problems.
I can provide system info/dumps tomorrow for the server machine, if anyone wants to look at them.
Any help or ideas are appreciated! This is hardly a major problem, but I'd really like to have a separate server machine.
Title IE:S server freezing my PC!
Launcher Type Server
Modpack IE:S
Modpack version unknown (downloaded 10 Nov 2016 from FTB launcher)
Have you modified the pack? Yes
Link to log file
Details of the issue
Heyo, I've got a pretty annoying problem and I'd love some help with it, I'll be as straightforward with this as I can (LOTS OF TEXT WARNING):
THE PROBLEM:
------------------
Recently my IE:S server has been totally freezing the host PC. This happens without warning, usually within half an hour of connecting to it (although it sometimes , and there's no way to restore the PC without a forced restart. Nothing unusual shows up in logs or crash reports at all, no crash report generated.
This setup worked fine initially, then started happening after about 4/5 days. Overwriting the server (not the world) files with a backup seems to stop it for several hours, but it always comes back. Server initially had 4gb RAM dedicated to it, changed it to 2gb, no difference.
THE SETUP:
------------------
The server runs on my laptop, and I connect to it and play from another machine. The two machines are connected via 15m ethernet cable. Neither machine has internet access. Both run windows 7. I've added AromaBackup and Crafting Tweaks to my server mods.
THE HOST MACHINE:
------------------
The server is run on an old laptop, with 8gb RAM (recently upgraded) & 1.6GHz i7 8-core processor, running Java 8.
The CMOS battery has been replaced with a battery that doesn't properly fit the socket, and is held in with adhesive substance called prestik (commonly used to stick posters to walls - don't know what they call it in the US!).
I recently re-applied thermal paste to the CPU & GUP and cleaned the fans, still freezing.
A lot of the USB ports and even the ethernet port can be a little dodgy, sometimes I need to disable & re-enable the ethernet port for it to connect to the "network".
The battery is dead, and so it runs on the charger only.
THE QUIRKS:
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Other oddities I've encountered: The FTB Utilities auto-backup service stopped working on that particular world a few days before this started happening. I replaced it with AromaBackup to keep the backups rolling. Also, this crashing only happens when I'm playing on it, it never crashes when left to run with no players online, even when left for 20+ hours.
The save file has now been transferred to my main machine and is running on a localhost server, so far no problems.
I can provide system info/dumps tomorrow for the server machine, if anyone wants to look at them.
Any help or ideas are appreciated! This is hardly a major problem, but I'd really like to have a separate server machine.
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it's a 6 year old laptop, this is just one of the many quirks that are starting to show up...