From:
hlds-bounces@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:
hlds-bounces@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Joe Ludwig
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 10:57 PM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] Massive TF2 Server Crashing
We think we have this fixed now. The gameservers were getting into a state where restarting part of the Steam service would cause them to crash. In fact, the second crash on Sunday morning (10:58am PDT) was caused by pushing the fix live. We restarted that part of Steam this morning at 10:40am PDT and there were no reports of servers crashing en mass around that time, so we should be good.
From this point forward, if you see any more instances of many servers crashing at once, please send me callstacks or crash dump files and I'll take a look.
Joe Ludwig
joe@valvesoftware.com