Well, Windows (server versions) are expensive. Off course if you're a
hosting company, then there is no problem, but when you host a local server
and you don't get any money from that, then linux is the best choice. My
choice was SuSe 9.x builds and from 9.0 I'm not getting any bugs or errors
on HLDS/SRCDS builds :-). And they aren't so expensive (SuSe linux cost
~260Lt and Windows Server WEB cost ~1500Lt, Lt - our country currency.
Kevin mentioned about "high-resolution Timer" maybe it has to do something
with the CPU usage? My server settings are fps_max 1000, but really I don't
get anything more than 333fps (even if my /proc/sys/kernel/hz shows 1000).
Maybe when there is ticrate things we do nor need more fps than server is
updating clients? Or I'm mistaking something? :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Ottalini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Cpu usage
This is just a plain old P4 Prescott (478 pin) CPU, very common but solid
and predictable.
I have a Dell Dual Xeon 2.2GHz machine here that I just started to do some
testing on, nothing to report yet.
Windows hasn't been bad to manage (I've been running servers since 2002)
other then no autoupdate which can be a mixed blessing (I suspect) and I
actually really like the server GUI.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bart van den Heuvel"
To: <hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Cpu usage
Interesting!
What kind of 3 Ghz CPU are you using, Xeon (old) or Xeon (New with I64) or
P4?
In currently running a cs-server on linux. The metrics show here (been on
the list before: http://core.zokahn.com/cs-01/
This is a dual xeon 3ghz system the processors are bit aging...early 3ghz
models. I'm currently building a new system which holds 2 dual core
optoren 270 processors, I hope these will give enough bang for a lot of
slots.
The first month I will be testing windows vs linux performance. (I have a
partition with windows and one with debian 3.1)
I really hope Linux wins. as i find it easyer to manage :-)
Gr,
Zokahn
Just as a baseline cross-platform comparison, I have three servers
running
on a new Win2003 server box at a data center.
The server is an Intel 3.0GHz HT CPU with 2GB of DDR memory.
There is one HLDM (512 FPS, 1KHz ticrate ), one HL2DM (300fps, default
(66?) ticrate) and one DOD:S server (300fps, default (66?) ticrate) with
12
player slots each. I also normally run a high-resolution timer.
With all three servers full (34 real players), CPU utilization runs ~81%.
VAC is enabled for all three servers.
Turning off the high-res timer dropped the CPU utilization to ~20%.
I'm not posting this to say that Win32 is better or worse then Linux, all
I'm reporting
is how the Win32 platorm is behaving with current server code (in my mind
they should both be very close to each other in performance).
qUiCkSiLvEr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evaldas Zilinskas"
To: <hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:55 PM
Subject: [hlds_linux] Cpu usage
Ok, I don't want to discuss about the current problem with CPUs, because
on
every srcds site you can see that. I would preffer to see answers. So,
yesterday I ran a 24slot server DODs using 66tic. And when people reached
the number of 18-20, CPU was ~90%. Is this normal? I mean, that on the
same
CPU and Linux I can run 2 dod1.3 servers with 32 slot and get ~60-70%
CPU.
And dod1.3 do update players 100k/s just fine, and here? You have
66updates/s and so high CPU usage. At the momment I'm runing 3.4GHz
Pentium4
(800MHz FSB etc, etc...) +2GB DDR*400 and SuSe Linux. Better MHz
suggestin
is only a 3.8 one, but I don't think that +400MHz will slow my problems.
So I know that current SRCDS anticheat system with updates, ticrates a
bit
slow the aimboting and something like that, but from admin side of this,
It's a pain in the ass. Because CPUs with 5GHz haven't showed yet :).
What do the people on this list think? Maybe an other beta test would
bring
the things to the right side?
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