Server crashing uncomfortably often

[DiscoBiscuit]

So lately whenever my server has more than 2 people in it, it crashes. However when I remove ULX it doesn't happen.
I am running default sandbox on flatgrass with no other admin mods to conflict it. I am also using the datastream fix. Any idea why this could be happening? I know I'm using the latest ULX and ULib.

There's no errors or anything either when it happens.

[Megiddo]

How highly correlated are the ulib installation and the crashing? Over what period of time?

[DiscoBiscuit]

I tried using a different admin mod for a day. The server will crash whether there's a lot of props or not.

[Megiddo]

For a game known to crash on a stay wind, a day isn't really enough to say what's crashing it...

[DiscoBiscuit]

I dunno, we tried a few other mods for a couple of hours today again and had no issues, then went back to ULX and it started crashing every 10 minutes again.
I am using a few ULX plugins, too though. Unolimited, UTime, Playertitles, and XGUI.

[JamminR]

Unolimited, UTime, Playertitles, and XGUI - Try removing one a day until the crashes stop.
Personally, I'd try the following order first to last. UnoLimited, PlayerTitles, UTime, XGUI.
UNoLimited is meant to override Garry's default functions. I could see it perhaps conflicting instead of overriding.
PlayerTitles, well, it's older code and has been modified various times by more than one author I think to make it work with ULib SVN.
UTime and XGUI, well, just saving those for last if the first two didn't help.
Megiddo and Stick will know more about timing within those.

[DiscoBiscuit]

I have narrowed it down a bit, it seems to sometimes crash when it makes people do ulib_updatecvars or whatever. Like this:

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#[06/08/10 18:37:30] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "sv_gravity" "600"
#[06/08/10 18:37:30] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "sbox_plpldamage" "1"
#[06/08/10 18:37:31] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_votebanSuccessratio" "0.7"
#[06/08/10 18:37:31] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_votemapEnabled" "1"
#[06/08/10 18:37:31] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_logSpawns" "1"
#[06/08/10 18:37:31] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_logFile" "1"
#[06/08/10 18:37:31] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_votemapSuccessratio" "0.4"
#[06/08/10 18:37:31] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_logDir" "ulx_logs"
#[06/08/10 18:37:31] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_votemapMintime" "10"
#[06/08/10 18:37:31] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_rslotsVisible" "1"
#[06/08/10 18:37:31] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_votekickMinvotes" "2"
#[06/08/10 18:37:32] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_votemapVetotime" "30"
#[06/08/10 18:37:32] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_votekickSuccessratio" "0.6"
#[06/08/10 18:37:32] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "sbox_weapons" "1"
#[06/08/10 18:37:32] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "sv_alltalk" "1"
#[06/08/10 18:37:32] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "sv_voiceenable" "1"
#[06/08/10 18:37:32] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "ulx_logEvents" "1"
#[06/08/10 18:37:33] User (STEAM_0:1:123456789) Ran: ulib_update_cvar "sbox_noclip" "1"

Whenever it crashes the last thing in console is usually someone halfway through doing those.

[Megiddo]

That's done when the player is initializing, DiscoBiscuit, so all that means is the server is screwing up initializing... somewhere. Still, the ulib_update_cvar command isn't supposed to execute right then, so I fixed it so it won't run during initialization anymore (ULib rev 147). I'd be extremely shocked if that was causing your crashes, but at least it's one more thing out of the way.

[JamminR]

Disco, kudos for your input. It's greatly appreciated.