At 04:21 AM 11/30/2009, Pavilus Zirovski wrote: >It's happening about 3-4 times per month for me on 32bit Gentoo hosting TF2 >servers only. Im not using -debug in startup line. I am using default >preempt kernel (not realtime), but i was using realtime priority scheduler >on srcds processes. I think maybe that is the problem. Now i removed >resched.sh script from crontab, cause i thought that maybe it happens at >some specific moments when cpu overload is very high and rescheduling script >changes realtime priority of all srcds_processes (chrt -f -p 98 processid), >but im not sure. Now i change realtime priority manually only. Server hasnt >crashed for about 2 weeks for now, but i think it might crash any time. This >has been frustrating for me as well, cause i lost all remote accesses to >server, all processes start to hang one by one and cpu usage is maximized >(all taken by one srcds process) at that moment till i lost connection from >server at all and i have to call my hosting company so they could physically >restart server. At first i thought it was because of some hardware failure >or something but now seeing that others have the same problem then im not >sure. I hope someone could give some more clues..
TBH you don't need SCHED_FIFO, you only need SCHED_RR. Gameservers are not time sensitive enough to justify running them at the same priority as, say, the network packet scheduler. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
