>One thing, with the cool telnet console thing (which is cool, and will >simplify some server stats generation stuff I do), the parent process listens >on telnet too. This confused the hell out of us at first, as that's the one >we tried to connect to, and it never says anything. I don't know if you're >planning on doing something with that later on, but if so, it might be nice to output stuff to the telnet console warning noobs like me ;)
The idea is for the parent process to be able to be talked to in order to do things like query the status of all the children, gracefully shutdown, etc. There is no functionality to do this at the moment, and I can't say when or if we might release that, but that's why a port is reserved for the parent process. >The other thing, which probably only matters at the moment when people are taking servers up and down quite often, is that it's difficult to take down a group of forked servers gracefully, as people keep joining; you end up having to kick a lot of people and I'm sure they get annoyed. What I did eventually was manually remove the master server entries from each server individually to stop them showing up on the list, then firewalled new connections to the servers. A way of telling forked servers to stop when they get to hibernation would be nice (maybe that's a use for that extra telnet console) This doesn't currently interact well with -fork, but there is a new command "sv_shutdown", which will cause the server to exit when it enters hibernation state, in order to allow a graceful restart. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Green > Sent: 07 November 2008 17:53 > To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list' > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] CPU usage > > I don't get that on my linux box (fedora core 9, 64 bit). > > What are people's perceptions so far in terms of the performance and > memory impact of hosting l4d servers, especially compared to our other > games? What numbers of full servers have people been able to host on > what hardware/os combinations? Internally, when we tried to push as > many servers as possible on 8-core xeons, we tended to run out of ram > before we ran out of CPU. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David A. Parker > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 9:30 AM > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: [hlds_linux] CPU usage > > Hello, > > Using "stats" in the L4D server console appears to indicate that the > CPU > usage is at 99.9%: > > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players > 99.90 9098.73 33508.38 33 3 28.27 6 > > However, both mpstat and top indicate that it is hovering around 5% > used, 95% idle. How is CPU usage calculated by the game server? > > - Dave > > -- > > Dave Parker > Utica College > Integrated Information Technology Services > (315) 792-3229 > Registered Linux User #408177 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
