How many servers are there on each machine ? bandwidth ? What kind of switch are you using ?
What network card are you using ? []'s Marcos Dias www.netrangers.com.br ----- Original Message ----- From: "kama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 5:47 AM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Loss/Choke in FreeBSD servers > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Andy Shinn wrote: > > > Wondering if any FreeBSD HLDS users can help me out. > > > > First of all. I'm wondering if FreeBSD was a good choice for HLDS > > servers. I mainly went with FreeBSD because all my other machines run > > FreeBSD and HLDS does seem to run well on it. Recently I built a new > > machine (dual 2.8ghz xeon, 1gb ram) to run some more game servers on. I > > get about 1-4 loss on them at any time, rarely going to 0. I have set > > the kern.hz="1000", tried changing rates and such. No luck. > > > > CPU usage was never over 30% and other HLDS servers on the same switch > > on the net have 0 loss all the time. > > > > Wondering if there are any other tweaks I should look at or something > > else to monitor. > > > > Otherwise I'm very happy with the FreeBSD performance in HLDS. Though I > > can't even feel the 1 - 4 loss it bothers me that it is there =\ > > I use FreeBSD and HLDS. And I am seeing losses too, but only 1-4 every > 3-10 minutes. The server spec are simular, dual xeon 2.4 GHz, HT enabled, > 1 gig ram. I never thought it could be due to freebsd, perhaps you are > right, perhaps you are wrong. I always thought it was the network, and > when i upgraded the IOS on the switches a lot of the problems I hade > before disappeared. The choke I am seeing is only at a restart of a map, > when everyone buys... > > > Next on my list of things to try was to disable HT. I have read that HT > > doesn't help and can actually be worse since HLDS isn't multi threaded. > > Is this true? > > I could not see why it will run better with HT disabled. FreeBSD sees them > as 4 seperate CPU's. Perhaps there is some overhead that causes them to > perform slightly more poorly. The benefit is that when it spins off and > uses 99% of cpu it will not affect the other servers. > > /Bjorn > > -- > > I wish my girlfriend understood ... > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
