Does anyone remember when you could run multiple servers on 1 box? Valve has
"improved" cs soooo much, now we feel good if we can get 2 servers on a box
thats 10 times better that the ones we used 3 years ago. Viva la update!
Give me back 1.3, and I could run 20 servers on the boxes we use now! The
cost of quality servers vs amount of instances and performance is putting
several GSPs in a real bad position, to where many have gone under, or are
running with a VERY slim profit margin, if any! Thanks valve! What was sooo
wrong with 1.3 - 1.5 that the improvments are so cpu and memory intensive?
We ran very stable, bugfree (for the most part anyway), and cheap servers,
with no more hacking than I see now, so its not security, and its not really
performance, cause the improvment there isnt parrellel with the increase in
server requirments. Maybe we really SHOULD go back to the old ways, but
wait, all the clients are now upgraded so thats no longer possible...sigh oh
well
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Stegall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Kernel tweaks
With 512mb you should be able to run 2 or 3 hl1engine servers (specially
if two are like private servers) However if you want to run any
sourceengine servers, I'd suggest upgrading to 1gb. The source server
has this tendency to allocate like 480mb of ram sometimes during map
changes which would be too much for even a 512mb server.
right now my servers are dual model 285 opterons with 4gb of ram OR dual
Xeon 7140Ms with 8gb of ram. (we are using the ck patchset kernel
specifically the cks patchset for servers ... using 1000HZ and the CFQ
scheduler) we use gentoo stable for our hl1 based servers (and most
other nonvalve servers) and win2k3r2 enterprise for our source based
servers .... due to the performance issues with source on linux vs
source on nt5.1
Jonathan wrote:
The memory usage seems to be around 150mb with 20 players.. sounds
logical
if 40 players use 300mb, so i feel good on that point.
Actually with linux using so little of the ram, you should easily be
able
to
run one server on there... as long as they are not all bots =p. I see
my
servers (40 man) using about 300 megs each
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Fennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Kernel tweaks
Jonathan wrote:
After i compiled the kernel with 1000hz on one of the boxes, the cpu
load
dropped to 10% from 99%, so at least that's a good sign :)
The other things you said were the first things i checked, so the
systems
now have up-to-date slimmed gentoo installations with a 1000hz kernel.
It will be interesting to see how hard i can push an amd65 3500+ box
with
512mb ram.
Ya need to bump the ram up to at least 1gig to get anything out of it
really imo. Otherwise the machine will be swapping to disc far to much.
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