uLib Causing Lag Spikes

[Daeragon]

Hi,

I own a Garry's Mod server. For some reason, one day, everyone started to freeze when a player would spawn in the server. It would cause five seconds with a frozen screen, and then go back to normal. At this time, we did not install anything new.

I have deleted uLib, and the error goes away! But then a bunch of other issues occur, like no inventory. So deleting this isn't an option. There is no error code in the console, so I have no idea where to start!

If anyone has had the same issue, or knows how to fix it, please give me any help you can.

Thanks,

Daeragon

[soja]

Try:
sv_allowdownload 0
sv_allowupload 0

if they aren't already set. This will not effect the download of custom content on your server as long as it in on the workshop or FastDL.

[Daeragon]

Do I type these in console? And I forgot to mention that players freeze when someone is changed in rank, and when I try to move someone from one group to the other, my game crashes.

[soja]

Put them in the server.cfg.

From your description it just sounds like client side lag.

[Daeragon]

Ok, will do, but might I ask, what do these commands do?

[soja]

They disable file downloading and uploading from clients. GMOD has an issue with sprays, where it will try to find sprays that are requested by clients, and usually the sprays cannot be found. This for some reason causes server-side lag spikes, particularly noticeable on large servers. These commands make it impossible for players to fill up the servers download folder with sprays, eliminating the ability for the server to search through them.