-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] My dual Xeons isnt performing too. Instead, a P4 2.0a is doing better. AMD MPs are ok too. Problem with the i686?
bad ping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /dons nomex suit That's something I noticed too. In fact, even under 1.4 and 1.5, we had horrible performance from a monster of a machine, a quad Xeon 550 MHz with 2 MB cache. It was an IBM Netfinity box, 4 GB RAM, SCSI RAID array, etc. Despite all that expensive gear, Aztec was unplayable starting at 12 players, with 99% CPU common, with no other game servers running. Of course it was pegging only 1 CPU, meaning it was really only running as single 550 proc. However, at a lan last week we had 14 players on aztec under 1.6 running on a p3 600 dedicated server, and we never saw over 50% usage, even with all the plugins and VAC (we had internet). I'm not sure how to explain a disparity in use like this, but I think SMP is certainly a strong candidate for investigation. Why run single-threaded app under an multithreaded environment, unless you use win32 and processor affinity? In any case, the CPU usage issues we had with the quad Xeon box disappeared when we conslidated all that silicon onto one P4 2.53. Of course, on this list, such talk is heresy. But I'm pretty glad we didn't go SMP...1U blades running single procs are cheap to build, and save $$$ on rackspace :) -BP _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
