March 5 2012
Hello Xsyon Citizens!
The Main Server and client have been updated with a minor patch. This is a patch to primarily address lag issues.
As more players have been joining us recently in Xsyon, the server has experienced lag spikes. This is our primary concern right now and we've been focused on this for the past week. From our observations, these lag spikes have been caused by the server not properly distributing the processing of actions across the CPU cores. When one CPU core overloads it causes a lag spike that can last a few minutes. This was dependent on specific actions and in game activity, not number of players online.
When the load is properly distributed the server runs at around 15% CPU usage even at peak times.
Hopefully this patch will resolve these lag spikes. A few minor bugs have also been fixed.
We will be observing the server carefully today.