Why multiple users simultaneously be kicked from a channel?

[gg67]

Hey all,

I've run into some strange server issues. Last week I had ~20 users in a channel and everything worked fine. This week I did the same thing, but after a certain point we'd start losing users all at the same time. The only output from the server was that people had timed out (or just disconnected) and the occasional "<ProcessPlayerPacket>an attempt was made to move the position before the beginning of the stream" error.

Any idea whats going on? I decided to blame it on my PC (since it's acting as the sole server) and am testing with a cloud server soon.
Also, what's the best way to stress test these things? Any tools y'all use?

Thanks!

[ArenMook]

No, I don't use any tools, and can't say I've seen that issue. Are you just running the executable? Anything special you're doing?

[gg67]

Just running the executable on a Windows machine (although the machine is running lots of other apps and is behind a college network). And once this issue occurs, it seems like the server is in a bad state, meaning user's data would get crossed (people walking in with other people's avatars). It's probably something specific I'm doing in my game but didn't know if you have experienced any issues like this.

[ArenMook]

People walking with other people's avatars? Yeah certainly sounds something specific to how you set things up...