have you tried not messing with the affinity? sometimes it's better to leave affinity alone and this is from my own experience
Rodge Stumbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I run one instance of srcds and one of cod4, but never see that type of cpu use, actually, I don't see a difference when I start cod4 at all. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steve grout Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 1:07 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] srcds co-existence problem (tf2) :'( is there anyway to stop this? Just so i can see if indeed this is the problem. Chris Staley wrote: > I bet the reason why, is just running the source servers the fps will > stay at the limited ~80fps or whatever it is, but when you start up > cod4, which in itself changes the multimedia timer (like srcdsfpsboost > does) so they will all use a lot more cpu. I am not sure about UT3, but > I now cod4 does this. > > steve grout wrote: > >> sorry, >> >> meant to say... its running off windows 2003 sp2 server q6600 4gb mem >> >> steve grout wrote: >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> doing some monitoring on the servers we have noticed that srcds does not >>> co-exist well with other game server software..now it might be a setup >>> issue our side so any help would be great.... >>> >>> just running 5 instances of srcds and having all the servers full, the >>> cpu load goes to max 25%, as soon as we launch either a CoD4 or UT3 >>> server the cpu usage goes to the 90's.. we have changed the affinite's >>> of the servers so that the tf2 servers run off the first 3 cores and >>> CoD4 and UT3 run off core 4. The first 3 cores are almost maxed out >>> while core 4 it sitting nice at around 15%. >>> >>> anyone got any ideas please!? >>> >>> Nephyrin Zey wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I might've spoken a bit too soon on this - the servers do still get up >>>> into the high nineties CPU usage and stay there for a while - it seems >>>> like after they've been running for a while their overall CPU usage >>>> drifted back up to about the same as before the patch. This might be >>>> the first ever case of "CPU Leaks" :-/ The server also still incurs >>>> minor memory leaks, which seem to be about the same since before the >>>> patch. >>>> >>>> I run two 32x linux servers that are nearly always full and >>>> occasionally empty out at night. Here are some pretty graphs: >>>> >>>> http://www.nephyrin.net/NemuCPU.png >>>> >>>> Shows Load Average. On thursday it was lower despite both servers >>>> being full (???). The big spike today is the patch. The servers were >>>> both *instantly full* after the patch (among the first online) and >>>> have been *constantly full* since, yet the CPU usage over the past >>>> three hours has drifted up to pre-patch levels... >>>> http://nephyrin.net/NemuMem.png >>>> >>>> Memory Usage over a longer period - note that i went from one to two >>>> servers on tuesday, so the memory leaks have actually remained about >>>> the same as before. >>>> >>>> If anyone from Valve wants a login to my stats system let me know. It >>>> has tons and tons of pretty graphs dating to back when the server >>>> started. >>>> >>>> - Neph >>>> >>>> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Nephyrin Zey wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Two patches ago levels == how it ran on the patch before the patch >>>>> before goldrush. Both the patch before goldrush and the goldrush patch >>>>> hurt performance, and its now at levels similar to prior to both of >>>>> those. >>>>> >>>>> Still a bit higher than it was when i first started hosting servers, >>>>> and higher than it should be, but better. >>>>> >>>>> - Neph >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! 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