Its better to set the CPU affinity to 1 core right?
So each server is affinity'ed to a separate core.

gamead...@127001.org wrote:
> In my experience tf2 servers like to jump core every few minutes.  If you 
> don't let them do that, you get a small amount of lag every few minutes 
> instead.  I'm not sure what's going on with the Linux process scheduler 
> there, but that's my experience.  YMMV
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-
>> boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Zuko
>> Sent: 05 March 2009 12:00
>> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] TF2 CPU Usage on Q9300
>>
>> I have same situation (24 players CPU usage about 80-95% Xeon 2.5GHz
>> (and
>> fps drop for 1-2sec from ~980 to ~60))
>>
>> 2009/3/5 DontWannaName! <ad...@topnotchclan.com>
>>
>>> I would say that those numbers sound about right, more or less. 90
>> max.
>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:59 AM, The Universes
>> <ad...@theuniverses.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Is it normal for a 32 man TF2 (Badwater) server to take up 80-90%
>> of the
>>>> CPU on Q9300 (Quad 2.5ghz) when the server is full and theres a lot
>> of
>>>> action going on?
>>>>
>>>> I recompiled my kernel according to the Fragaholics wiki guide.
>>>> Kernel 2.6.28.7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 4 17:36:14 PST 2009 x86_64
>> x86_64
>>>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> CPU scaling is disabled, irqbalance is disabled, server is not
>> running
>>>> unnecessary services nor web servers, databases, or anything else.
>> I
>>>> have 4 32man servers running on there, but only 1 is full and the
>> other
>>>> 3 have a total of 10 or less players combined.
>>>>
>>>> FPS max is set to 501 and sv_maxrate/cmdrate is 67. Did not change
>> tick
>>>> or systick via startup options.
>>>>
>>>> I used taskset to lock the process to single core
>>>> # taskset -p 3634
>>>> pid 3634's current affinity mask: 4
>>>> # taskset -p 3331
>>>> pid 3331's current affinity mask: 1
>>>> # taskset -p 3105
>>>> pid 3105's current affinity mask: 2
>>>> # taskset -p 3243
>>>> pid 3243's current affinity mask: 8
>>>>
>>>> Am I doing something wrong here, or do you guys have any
>> suggestions?
>>>> Thanks for any help/advice you can provide.
>>>>
>>>> - Dan
>>>>
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