Warcraft 3 MODs

Hey, so I installed warcraft 3.0, and amx 1.8, things were running smoothly until a few hours ago, I have no clue how long it's been doing this since I reinstalled everything, but it seems to be recent. During the assumed beginning of the lag spiking, I did add some maps and the like, so I don't see how they are connected.

Anyway, I can't be sure if its warcraft 3 that is causing this, so I wanted to ask and see if you guys can figure it out. At the end of each round, I'm not sure what triggers it, but we all get a lag spike (usually) at the end of each round. We also do get some random lag spikes throughout the game, but not as severe.

I was wondering if this had to do with me using sqlite as my database. Here is a list of my plugins
Currently loaded plugins:
name version author file status
[ 1] Admin Base 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team admin.amxx running
[ 2] Admin Commands 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team admincmd.amxx running
[ 3] Admin Help 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team adminhelp.amxx running
[ 4] Multi-Lingual System 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team multilingual.am running
[ 5] Menus Front-End 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team menufront.amxx running
[ 6] Commands Menu 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team cmdmenu.amxx running
[ 7] Players Menu 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team plmenu.amxx running
[ 8] Maps Menu 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team mapsmenu.amxx running
[ 9] Admin Chat 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team adminchat.amxx running
[ 10] Anti Flood 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team antiflood.amxx running
[ 11] Scrolling Message 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team scrollmsg.amxx running
[ 12] Info. Messages 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team imessage.amxx running
[ 13] Admin Votes 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team adminvote.amxx running
[ 14] NextMap 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team nextmap.amxx running
19:13:15 [ 15] TimeLeft 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team timeleft.amxx running
[ 16] Pause Plugins 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team pausecfg.amxx running
[ 17] Stats Configuration 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team statscfg.amxx running
[ 18] Restrict Weapons 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team restmenu.amxx running
[ 19] StatsX 1.8.0.3660 AMXX Dev Team statsx.amxx running
[ 20] Warcraft 3 Frozen Thro 3.0 RC11 Geesu, Avanderik war3ft.amxx debug
[ 21] AMX Super 3.7 Bmann_420 & Bo0m amx_super.amxx debug
[ 22] DeagsMapManager 3.1 Deags/AMXX Commu deagsmapmanager running
[ 23] AMX Bank 1.7 twistedeuphoria amx_bank.amxx running
[ 24] Autoresponder/Advertis 0.5 MaximusBrood ad_manager.amxx running
[ 25] Team Balancer 1.8b3 Ptahhotep ptb.amxx running
[ 26] Play or Be Kicked 1.4 Brad Jones pbk.amxx running
[ 27] Descriptive 'Fire in t 0.1 VEN descriptive_fir running
[ 28] FrostNades 0.12b Avalanche frostnades.amxx running
[ 29] Team Switching Fixed 1.8 n!nja teamswitch.amxx running
19:13:15 [ 30] Automatic knife duel 0.3 JGHG automatic_knife running
[ 31] Hobo Nade Manager 1.1 hoboman313 hobo_nade_manag running
[ 32] Real Nade Drops 0.4 VEN realnadedrops.a running
[ 33] Gas Grenades 1.5a ConnorMcLeod amx_gasnades.am running
33 plugins, 33 running

There are some others, but they are currently offline (at leasts for this map).

Can anybody give me an idea of why this is occurring?

More details please - server spec, meta list, meta version, post your war3ft.cfg

01:14:39 Currently loaded plugins:
description stat pend file vers src load unlod
[ 1] AMX Mod X RUN - amxmodx_mm.dll v1.8.0.3 ini Start ANY
[ 2] WinHL-Booster RUN - booster_mm.dll v1.70 ini Chlvl Pause
[ 3] E[POD]bot RUN - epb.dll v5.30 ini Start Never
[ 4] SQLite RUN - sqlite_amxx.dll v1.8.0.3 pl1 ANY ANY
[ 5] Fun RUN - fun_amxx.dll v1.8.0.3 pl1 ANY ANY
[ 6] Engine RUN - engine_amxx.dll v1.8.0.3 pl1 ANY ANY
[ 7] FakeMeta RUN - fakemeta_amxx.dl v1.8.0.3 pl1 ANY ANY
[ 8] CStrike RUN - cstrike_amxx.dll v1.8.0.3 pl1 ANY ANY
[ 9] CSX RUN - csx_amxx.dll v1.8.0.3 pl1 ANY ANY
[10] Ham Sandwich RUN - hamsandwich_amxx v1.8.0.3 pl1 ANY ANY
[11] MySQL RUN - mysql_amxx.dll v1.8.0.3 pl1 ANY ANY
11 plugins, 11 running

meta version
01:15:18 Metamod v1.19 2006-04-17 (5:13)
by Will Day <[email protected]>
http://www.metamod.org/
compiled: Apr 17 2006, 19:11:42 +0200 (optimized)

Server specs, not a clue, I rent it, I can say its pretty high quality, its always among the lowest ping in all servers i encounter. Will ask the owner later the specifics.

So I decided to experiment around, turning off various plugins, and see what is causing the lagging. Most definitely, when the last person dies on his team, the server usually gets a lag spike, and continuous lagging throughout the game. Keep in mind, that during this testing, I passworded the server and the only players were bots. I first turned off warcraft 3, and kept all remaining plugins on, so that if the server stops lagging, i know (to some extent) that it is at least connected to war3. The result, it would lag in the beginning, but gradually fade away. Then i also tried turning war3 on, and turning off all other plugins, same thing. Then, I would turn all of them back on and guess what, it isn't lagging! So I released it back to the open, and after some time with players, the server would begin to lag spike again.

Anybody have a better method of testing what is causing this.

P.S. By the way, I got this from HLSW during map change, I don't know what it means
00:20:31 [WinHL-Booster] ERROR - unable to query performance monitor

When you say plugins - did you also turn off some of the meta plugins? such as booster and podbot? Try shutting off booster if you haven't

Also turn off end round saving of XP and see if that makes a difference

What does booster do, and it is ok for me to turn it off?

I don't think the podbots are the problem, the server doesn't really experience lag spikes when its just bots, once people start coming in (thus the bots are kicked off), thats when it starts.

The lag has decreased to some extent, after I disabled some more mods.

No, when I meant plugins, I meant mods, my apologies, i only disabled mods.

Try turning off bots and booster and let me know how it goes...

Booster is intended to make your server faster - but it can conflict w/other plugins and cause "issues"

Geesu wrote:
Also turn off end round saving of XP and see if that makes a difference

When is xp saved if this is set to 0? End of map?

End of map, when people change race

So if people leave before map ends, and didn't change race, they lose whatever xp it was that they accumulated during that time?

And yes, that option was the one causing problems for me earlier. It has been disabled.

It saves when they d/c too