Do you have any idea on a timescale for the freeze-fix release please?

@SavageCDN - private message sent, sorry for delay
@JerkinMerkin - yes, we are running cba 2.3.0 and have had freezes on some missions

A3 1.56
@cba_a3 v2.3.0
Yes to cqb module.

One of our public server Alive missions repeatedly fails with freezes so we stopped running it for now.

With the same modset (incl. @alive, @ace3, @rhs_afrf3) another Alive mission has worked fine all day and was up for 28 hours.

https://www.gametracker.com/server_info/144.76.162.200:2362/
Around 25-30 players this evening.

I don't envy you folks trying to sort this problem out!

First I'm going to say what a wonderful mod @alive is, and how it has been enjoyed by all of us at 3 Commando Brigade on every single one of our busy public server missions for well over a year. Awesome job, thanks!

Unfortunately we have also been suffering with the "freezes" in this winter weather. Identical to all the reports you've previously had here. We do run a large modset so I won't bore you with rpt's as I know you need minimal mod installations to help find the solution. But I thought it worth reporting the issue to add to the data-set, especially as we have built up a lot of experience running Alive on 24/7 dedi servers catering for 20-40 players on most days of the year.

Symptoms

• players see others freeze in place or walking on the spot
• vehicles rubber band
• players will claim to be at the same place but not see each other
• players may not be able to join in progress
• red chains sometimes, but not always
• desync = 0 in map/player info
• suddenly occurs for all players, seemingly randomly from 5 minutes to 3 hours into a mission

• server rpt huge, spammed with specific error messages (example below)
• server reports very low on virtual memory (memory leak)

Facts

• it started happening sometime after the A3 v1.54 update and/or updates to @alive and @ace3 at that time. The same modset and same missions prior to that were stable.
• the problem goes away if you remove @alive from a larger modset
• it's still freezing with the Eden update
• not all of our missions freeze: we have a number which use @alive/@ace3/@rhs_ amongst other mods, which appear to be 100% stable (10 hours+ up-time)

Our conclusions so far

• it's not related to spawn density (happens with minimal ai numbers spawned, even with all players still at base)
• it's not player number related (has happened with just 2)
• it's not related specifically to being in combat (has happened with all players in a blacklisted base)
• it's probably not a specific @ace3 module setting, as all of our missions have identical parameters (ballistics etc); some work, others don't
• it's probably not the 3rd party Opfor type selected in the @alive modules - server freezes with BIS AAF enemy too (although to be fair, RHS/Leights is still loaded in the modset, but not being used)
• it doesn't appear to be related to a particular @alive module (such as C2Istar); I knocked it back to the bare minimum last night and still saw rpt spam; asymmetric or conventional warfare alike
• it probably is a conflict between @alive and either @ace3 or @rhs_ (possibly @leights_opfor) apparent only since an update from about a month ago, in agreement with the consensus opinion here

Server RPT sample
17:39:30 WARNING: SuppressCache::Trace called with huge input. Function exited to prevent program stall inside. tBeg[-0.000000,165.000000,-0.818642]; tEnd[0.000000,0.574304,12276.468750]; ammoHit(1.745155); distance(0.000000)
17:39:30 In last 500 miliseconds was lost another 2 these messages.
17:39:49 Virtual memory total 4095 MB (4294836224 B)
17:39:49 Virtual memory free 57 MB (59785216 B)
17:39:49 Physical memory free 25890 MB (27147853824 B)
17:39:49 Page file free 56668 MB (59421413376 B)
17:39:49 Process working set 3530 MB (3701755904 B)
17:39:49 Process page file used 3762 MB (3944747008 B)
17:39:49 Longest free VM region: 3604480 B
17:39:49 VM busy 4233289728 B (reserved 150560768 B, committed 4082728960 B, mapped 74436608 B), free 61546496 B
17:39:49 Small mapped regions: 24, size 106496 B
17:41:40 NetServer::finishDestroyPlayer(1970388062): DESTROY immediately after CREATE, both cancelled

The WARNING message is spammed, thousands of times.

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