----- Original Message ----- From: "Clayton Macleod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Ping problems (need help of linux gurus)
I sincerely doubt that a P3 800MHz is going to be fast enough to run a CSS server. We've got a server running on a 1.7GHz P4/celeron and it quite frequently uses 75% or more of that CPU. Which even though relatively slow, is quite a bit faster than a P3 800MHz machine. So I'd say that's the problem right there, the CPU just isn't fast enough for a server of CSS. Your P3 1GHz machine is probably just barely handling it by the thinnest of margins. As I recall when the P4 was introduced, I believe the 1.5GHz versions were about the same speed as the then fastest P3 1GHz machines. So your P3 1GHz is probably just a hair slower than the machine that our server is running on, and it probably maxes out every now and then. We've got an 18 player server running on ours, and as I said it goes over 75% very often. If the machine has more than one CPU the game server itself still only uses one of them, so it's still going to be CPU starved even though the other CPU(s) can be used for other things such as the packet handling in the firewall and all the other stuff going on. But the game server itself is still only going to be running on one CPU and it sounds to me like it's just way too optimistic to expect it to run on an 800MHz P3.
Acutally i found out its quad Xenon 550MHz, even worser :(((
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