alright.. with a cpu basically.. it can only do one single thing at a time,
so the higher the usage, the longer any one thing has to wait to be
processed (for say a frame) plus a million other things the cpu does at any
one point in time. so basically when the cpu usage gets that hight, and
since its a pretty weak cpu to begin with, it makes each frame, or process
for the server wait. and every frame when theres more people has to process
more, and then when the frame rate drops that low, it has to process even
more to make up for the time it lost. so the cpu may only think its at 80%
but when the FPS drops that low on a server.. your working the cpu wayy too
hard.
skel
sorry if some of that sounds a bit dillusional. i just got out of bed...
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From: "Yup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [hlds] Low FPS even with pingbooster
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I'm just using Task Manager and it's showing actual CPU usage, not
average.
I watch the Task Manager and the server's console FPS very carefully when
the server is full. The CPU load very rarely reaches 100% but like I said
most of the time (43 minutes out of the 45 minute map) it's at around 80%.
What you said about the queue slowing down at 80% makes sense because yes
the CPU will be hotter and heat slows things down. The theory seems
correct
but I don't know if it's completely true in this case. Anyone?
Thanks for the reply, helped me get my head out of the numbers.
On 10/5/05, Alexander Kobbevik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 80% you are close to maxing out your CPU.
What tools do you use to measure load?
If it uses average, maybe your server is acctually hitting 100% many
times
as you will experience this as lag spikes. Big shoot-outs at big open
spaces
on a map will cause more use of CPU.
I don't know how a CPU works, but there must be a cueue of some sort,
right?
At 80% this cueue will probably have a longer prosessing time then if you
ran at 20-30%.
Also the CPU might have a problem with heat at higher loads.
Just brain-storming :)
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Sent: 6. oktober 2005 09:25
To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
Subject: Re: [hlds] Low FPS even with pingbooster
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Again, pingbooster does nothing because the server can't go above 40 FPS
(it
doesn't matter if pingbooster is on or off) when there are more than 20
players connected even though the CPU load is only at 80%. Sorry for all
the
replies, I sent that last one by mistake. I just don't understand what's
limiting the FPS.
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