What causes lag on the pserver ?
Lag on a Palace server comes from several sources. The most common source of lag on a Palace server is network congestion on the net somewhere between the user’s home computer and the server. The source of network congestion lag can be anywhere on the net and is typically intermittent. Utilities like traceroute, etc are useful for identifying the location of network lag. You can use our traceroute script to view any possible congestion between yourself and our network. You will want to input your palace server address, ie. ‘palace.chatserve.com’. The second most common source of lag is server prop file fragmentation. As props are copied in and out of the server prop file in memory, it can become seriously fragmented which will slow prop access significantly. The wizard command purgeprops and the god command flushprops will cure lag caused by propfile fragmentation. The third most common source of lag is server loading. If the server is heavily loaded, all server responses will be slow.
