2008/11/14 Valtteri Kiviniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've been testing 1000fps gameservers myself and i found after long
> research a kernel + patch combination that gives always 1000fps (with
> pingboost2). It stays on 1000fps constantly even with many players on
> server and multiple 1000fps servers on the same hardware. It didn't even
> use much CPU.
>
> I still consider the perfect kernel as some kind of business secret so
> im not telling anything more than that its possible with pingboost2 +
> real time patchset from /Ingo Molnár. Rest you have to figure out
> yourself. =)/
>
> kabukiUkie kirjoitti:
> > This is the best we got it to with our configuration and pingboost 2.
> Output
> > from console stats (output from rcon stats are more consistently 1000).
> :
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 142.87 231.76 5059 7723 1000.00 20
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 143.05 229.28 5059 7723 980.39 20
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 143.02 230.85 5059 7723 984.25 20
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 143.26 232.51 5059 7723 981.35 20
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 141.28 232.72 5059 7723 956.02 20
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 142.59 234.15 5059 7723 505.31 20
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 144.81 237.62 5059 7723 492.85 20
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 143.50 237.01 5059 7723 946.07 20
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 142.39 235.56 5059 7723 492.37 20
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 141.01 227.23 5059 7723 975.61 20
> > statsDropped sway adr * mysway.net from server
> > Reason: Client sent 'drop'
> >
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 127.23 203.21 5059 7723 975.61 19
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 126.72 197.65 5059 7723 928.51 19
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 129.82 198.30 5059 7723 970.87 19
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 136.97 213.33 5059 7723 948.77 19
> > stats
> > CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players
> > 0.00 140.09 223.73 5059 7723 1000.00 19
> >
> > top:
> > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> > 16994 ndsg2 20 0 273m 256m 7608 S 38 7.8 1508:40 hlds_i686
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Kveri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I think stable 980+ fps on 20 slot public with 20 players is not
> possible.
> >>
> >> Kveri
> >>
> >> Kveri wrote / napísal(a):
> >>
> >>> Why do you need 980+ fps on public?
> >>>
> >>> It's waste of resources, and no hardware can handle that.
> >>>
> >>> Kveri
> >>>
> >>> Faustas Buškevičius wrote / napísal(a):
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> What are the chances of sustaining 980+ fps on a public server with
> >>>> 20+ players and max rates ?
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Kveri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Interesting, it looks like a bug in documentation. I'll test it on
> >>>>> brand new dual E5335 xeon server.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Kveri
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 13 Nov 2008, at 08:00, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Gary:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> With -pingboost 2, HL1 actually uses select() for its delays.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> -pingboost 2 uses alarm(), -pingboost 1 uses select()
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> I was careful to check this before I originally posted; what I said
> >>>>>> about
> >>>>>> was accurate, as least at the OS level. You can confirm this with
> >>>>>> "strace".
> >>>>>> I see output like this for -pingboost 2:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ...
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 85065}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 85091}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 85122}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 85147}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 85170}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> select(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000}) = 0 (Timeout)
> >>>>>> select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 85971}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 85996}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> recvfrom(5, 0xbfa3efe4, 4010, 0, 0xbfa3ff90, 0xbfa3efcc) = -1 EAGAIN
> >>>>>> (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 86058}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 86083}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 86102}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 86120}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558338, 86161}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> ...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In constrast, -pingboost 1 gives output like this:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558633, 60244}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558633, 60272}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> recvfrom(5, 0xbfb5ecb4, 4010, 0, 0xbfb5fc60, 0xbfb5ec9c) = -1 EAGAIN
> >>>>>> (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558633, 60340}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558633, 60360}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558633, 60388}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558633, 60415}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> gettimeofday({1226558633, 60442}, NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}},
> >>>>>> NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> pause() = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be
> >>>>>> restarted)
> >>>>>> --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
> >>>>>> rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x804a910, [ALRM], SA_RESTART}, {0x804a910,
> >>>>>> [ALRM],
> >>>>>> SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0
> >>>>>> setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}},
> >>>>>> NULL) = 0
> >>>>>> sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
> >>>>>> select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It sounds like Valve flipped the definitions of the functions since
> >>>>>> creating
> >>>>>> the versions you posted.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> With our kernel configuration, load-balancing, etc, both -pingboost
> 1
> >>>>>> and -pingboost 2 provide very stable framerates with extremely low
> >>>>>> jitter.
> >>>>>> On a Core2-based machine, we typically see a stable ~982fps with -
> >>>>>> pingboost
> >>>>>> 1 and a stable 1000fps with -pingboost 2. Rarely, either method will
> >>>>>> dip
> >>>>>> slightly. Typically with -pingboost 2, the dips are into the upper
> >>>>>> 990s.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -John
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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