Small rubber banding after hard reboot of machine

[jpwanabe]

A few days ago I had to do a hard reboot on our full machine. After I brought everything back up, we have been experiencing a small rubber band affect every few minutes or so. Every now and then it gets pretty bad for a few seconds. At this point I am out of ideas as to what is causing it. The CPU is nowhere near maxing on any of the cores , there is more than enough free memory, and the network activity isn't spiking as far as I can tell. I am on Windows Server 2008 and running 13 tf2 servers. If anyone has any ideas, no matter how crazy, please let me know.

I should also add I have literally changed nothing on the servers since the reboot. We were not getting the stutter at all before.

Also these top 3 processes keep opening and closing. Excluding the idle process of course.

[soja]

A few days ago I had to do a hard reboot on our full machine. After I brought everything back up, we have been experiencing a small rubber band affect every few minutes or so. Every now and then it gets pretty bad for a few seconds. At this point I am out of ideas as to what is causing it. The CPU is nowhere near maxing on any of the cores , there is more than enough free memory, and the network activity isn't spiking as far as I can tell. I am on Windows Server 2008 and running 13 tf2 servers. If anyone has any ideas, no matter how crazy, please let me know.

I should also add I have literally changed nothing on the servers since the reboot. We were not getting the stutter at all before.

Also these top 3 processes keep opening and closing. Excluding the idle process of course.

If you have not done so already, make firewall rules to only allow your IP address to connect to the remote desktop port. Attackers attempting to brute force into your Windows server can cause a lot of opening and closing processes which can consume some resources.

Which VDS package are you on?

[jpwanabe]

A few days ago I had to do a hard reboot on our full machine. After I brought everything back up, we have been experiencing a small rubber band affect every few minutes or so. Every now and then it gets pretty bad for a few seconds. At this point I am out of ideas as to what is causing it. The CPU is nowhere near maxing on any of the cores , there is more than enough free memory, and the network activity isn't spiking as far as I can tell. I am on Windows Server 2008 and running 13 tf2 servers. If anyone has any ideas, no matter how crazy, please let me know.

I should also add I have literally changed nothing on the servers since the reboot. We were not getting the stutter at all before.

Also these top 3 processes keep opening and closing. Excluding the idle process of course.

If you have not done so already, make firewall rules to only allow your IP address to connect to the remote desktop port. Attackers attempting to brute force into your Windows server can cause a lot of opening and closing processes which can consume some resources.

Which VDS package are you on?

Care to enplane on how to do that? And also we are on a Chicago full machine E3-1270 I believe.

Also, any way I can see if some one has tried to log in?

EDIT: Oh shit.

[soja]

Ah right I forgot you were on a dedi and not a VDS, my bad.

Do you have a firewall tab on your control panel for your dedi?

EDIT: Public facing servers are always subject to attacks like that, it isn't anything to be concerned about if you have a strong password.

[jpwanabe]

I do not.

[soja]

You could probably make that firewall ruleset using Windows firewall, but I don't know how to do that. You would have to look up how to do it online. You must be very careful though, as you could result in locking yourself out of your machine.

[jpwanabe]

You could probably make that firewall ruleset using Windows firewall, but I don't know how to do that. You would have to look up how to do it online. You must be very careful though, as you could result in locking yourself out of your machine.

With windows fire wall on the servers tend to freeze up for a second every now and then. Also, should I be concerned?

[jpwanabe]

Can't edit my post, but I think I have it solved. Just need to block all of these different ip's