the new update broke steel so anytime the server tries to go to steel it crashes
Steel is currently broken in-game and will not load. This is because the models in Steel cannot be precached due to the Source engine's precache being full with all the items recently added to TF2. This is a known bug and should be fixed today (Monday).
Heh. Thanks for the info.
Some of the crashes are just regular updates (6 in the last two weeks). A lot of the crashes this week were right after the update (at least 5 times). Not everything was working, and I most of those 'crashes' are me bringing down the server to update sourcemod and metamod multiple times. I don't think it has crashed organically in a while, except for this steel thing.
Also, as you mentioned, Source isn't the most stable piece of software out there. An occasional crash is to be expected, actually. I'd be suspicious if it DIDN'T crash at *least* once every two weeks.
Also, a thought occurred: A couple more crashes were some sourcemod extensions that I had to remove after the update after the fact, so those crashes were one time only.
