Right now there are 2 hlds servers on the machine. During time of testing both were empty. And even with both full. The loss/choke still seem to be about the same (around 1-6).
The switch is a Cisco 2900 series. Not sure exact model, it's a special layer 3 model.
The network card is an integrated intel card. Not sure which model. Come with the Supermicro 6013a-t chassis.
Marcos Dias wrote:
How many servers are there on each machine ? bandwidth ?
What kind of switch are you using ?
What network card are you using ?
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----- 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
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