I have a dual xeon 3ghz, i had 6 forks running on it, but with 5x 8 people in versus mode people started to complain and i indeed could see that the cpu's where maxed out.
Running on linux debian, but if i hear these story's then it should be able to do more no? On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:54:53 +0800, Ben Jensz <fh-l...@3fl.net> wrote: > The night that Nick is referring to was when the Survival pack was > released. We were running 320 instances of Left 4 Dead across 5 IBM > HS21XM blades (Dual E5450s - 3Ghz each core) and the majority of the > servers had players on them. All of the cores were running at 90+% CPU > usage for a few hours. Each physical server was using around 11-12Gb of > RAM for that. > > We weren't doing anything special configuration wise, Left 4 Dead was > running in a default manner. Nothing special done OS wise, just a stock > install of CentOS. I played on one of our servers that night and I > didn't notice anything in-game that indicated performance issues. > > > Midnight wrote: >> I'm really surprised by these numbers. I have some pretty finicky >> players who play competitively. I don't know for sure if it is in their >> head or not, but they claim they get lag with 1 game active on a whole >> quad 9550 box which I find hard to believe so I tend to take it with a >> grain of salt. >> >> I would never dream of running 32 games per quad CPU, that is insane >> density imo. No offense but I find it amazing that you are getting any >> decent performance with the CPU's nearly maxed out, maybe you have some >> secret sauce in your system :) I get complaints after 25% CPU load on >> the box so we run all of ours under that at all times, which means 3-4 >> L4D's per box. They are using 6-9% cpu per game = up to about 40% of a >> core on newer hardware. This could be from tweaking done to the game >> settings. >> >> >> >> Nick Turner wrote: >> >>> We're running 8 servers per core on 5450s. 64 forks per 2 socket >>> server. 16GB is more than enough on Linux. >>> >>> We've had an entirely server almost full, the CPUs are nearly maxed out >>> but we didn't get any performance complaints. >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
