Debugging disconnects on /reload
 

Since WoD I've been getting disconnected sometimes when I /reload. It happens often enough that it's not just a coincidence, and no other online connections are affected, so it's definitely caused by the act of reloading the UI. However, it doesn't happen often (or consistently) enough to make the traditional "disable and selectively enable addons until the problem reappears" method useful for debugging it. It initially seemed to be related to high CPU usage during loading, and after disabling several of the addons with the highest total CPU usage shortly after login, it seems to occur less frequently, but it's really hard to say whether that's actually true or just my imagination.

So, I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar in 6.0, or has any suggestions on how I might go about debugging this problem. It's very annoying, and I'd like to resolve it, but I'm just at a loss on how to do that without just spending 8 hours doing nothing but enabling and disabling addons and reloading the UI.

Similar and also when doing multiple logout adjust SavedVariable file then login again. I can't say what is causing it other than it's pretty consistant.

What is consistant is that if there's a longish pause at about 90% of the loading status bar I know I'm going to disconnect.

It doesn't seem to happen (or maybe not as much) when going quickly through my alts doing a mail check or similar.

I have played WoW nearly every day since the WoD pre-patch in MoP, and since the launch of WoD. I have reloaded my UI countless times during normal play and during AddOn development. I've not experienced this once.

I have experienced this at least a few times a week. I guess I have gotten used to it. I am open to any testing to figure this out.

Ditto here. Never came across this issue.

Last night I ran into a problem in a cave in Nagrand (where the ogres are doing the archaeology stuff). I habitually tried to mount inside the cave, but instead of the "you can't do that here-whatever" error message, WoW froze and I had to force-close it. Tested it out 2-3 more times and it did it each time. Just in that cave.

The only problem I ran into was after every raid I run, the stock Blizzard_GarrisonUI eats my framerate when I bring up the mission UI. This is talking about a massive drop, as in from 50 FPS to about 0.6 FPS. This only happens when the mission UI is visible. The problem seems to go away after a /reload.

Yep, that sounds like the same problem I have. It only happens when reloading the UI, never on a fresh login. Want to post a list of your addons and see if we have anything in common?

Here's mine, minus things that are definitely not causing the problem; either they're only enabled on a few characters, or are in the top tier of CPU usage at login (or all the time) and therefore have been disabled during earlier debugging (or are still disabled). I added brief descriptions next to the private ones in case you are using something similar.

The list (excluding only Blizzard components). The commons seem to be small enough.
!BugGrabber
Clique
Molinari
OmniCC
Mapster
Masque
Examiner

I can also rule out these from your list:

• !!Warmup -- installed after the problem started
• MasterPlan -- disabled on most characters, also LOD so it isn't loaded on login anyway
• OmniCC -- problem still happens when it's disabled
• Recount -- disabled on most characters
• TomTom -- problem still happens when it's disabled

Which leaves only these as the common ones:

• !BugGrabber
• Clique
• Examiner
• Mapster
• Masque
• Molinari

I'll try disabling those tomorrow and see if it still happens. (Really hope it's not !BugGrabber :p)

While I have no disconnects on reload I encounter a "similar" cpu-related problem when I use my zz_Worldboss together with Bartender. After playing a while opening/closing the map slows down and when I start moving with the map open wow freezes for a few seconds or even a disconnect. While I never encountered the problem with my own addon disabled exchanging bartender with dominos reduced the problem. So the "real" problem is my code for placing/updating stuff on the map but using bartender makes it worse ... never found what causes it. Probably not related to your problem but I saw BT on your list so I thought it worth mentioning.

I'm not experiencing any disconnects when reloading the UI and I use all of those addons except Clique and Examiner.

My bet would be on Examiner.

Although I highly doubt it, if Molinari would be the cause for this, please let me know.

I get the feeling it's not going to be pinned down to just one addon. Examiner and Examiner+Clique seem to be fine.

I get big lag when I log into the game and/or reload only on certain characters and all of my chars use the same addons. The only addon I use that is the same as you guys is Clique.

Disabled all these other than !BugGrabber and Molinari, and didn't get any disconnects, though I wasn't on for very long and only reloaded a few times, so not conclusive yet. :p

I use !BugGrabber
Mapster
Masque

I had some weird errors with Mapster and have it disabled and have not had a freeze in a while. I would need to re enable and capture the errors Mapster gave me.

I've re-enabled everything but Examiner and have not been disconnected once, so it looks like Resike was right:

Time to dip my toes in the inspection API pool, I guess...

I've used Examiner for a long time without experiencing this issue. Not sure what options are available.