How long should the gameserver plugin take to load?

[mattress]

I've got three L4D2 servers. Its taking almost five minutes to open the main display and even longer to open each server. Is this normal or have I done something horribly wrong?

[darren]

If you leave autoupdate enabled in 0.7.2 it will do a full steam update with -verify_all used before it starts the server as this was fixing a problem with a couple of games in the past. If you disable autoupdate and only turn it on when Valve releases a big patch that requires updating then you can avoid the long wait times when starting any steam based game (the large the longer the wait as well.) In 0.7.3 I've removed the -verify_all option to the update to speed things up and will see if anything breaks as a result

[mattress]

If you leave autoupdate enabled in 0.7.2 it will do a full steam update with -verify_all used before it starts the server as this was fixing a problem with a couple of games in the past. If you disable autoupdate and only turn it on when Valve releases a big patch that requires updating then you can avoid the long wait times when starting any steam based game (the large the longer the wait as well.) In 0.7.3 I've removed the -verify_all option to the update to speed things up and will see if anything breaks as a result

I'm talking about the screen to just view my server list. The servers are already running.

[darren]

Ah, then it probably shouldn't take 5 minutes unless you've got quite a few servers running (like 50 ?), how many servers are we talking about here ?

[mattress]

Three

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[darren]

Drop me a ticket so I can take a look, I've schedule a change in that code to request all the details at once rather than successive calls, but it will be awhile before I get to it and I'm not sure that it would fix whatever issue you are running up against anyway.