Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-23 Thread Florian Zschocke
Brett Fernicola wrote:

 AT LEAST WHEN I CALL SOMEONE  A MORON I GIVE FACTS TO BACK MY SELF UP YOU
 DUMB SHIT.

 Think about trying reiser fs filesystem it is a lot faster at handeling
 small files.  This reduced my load times a lot with slackware 9.1

Yeah, right, and HL has so many so extremely small files.

And btw, AMD Fanboy, you may stick both your Intel and AMD cpus where
the sun don't shine. PCs are for children, get yourself a *real*
machine. Once you've played Doom on a SGI you won't touch anything else
anymore. Yay for workstations and supercomputers, that is what real Men
play with. Muhuhauhaua!


SCNR,
Florian.









P.S.: This post could be considered a troll. Resist from feeding it
unless your name is Brett.

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RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-23 Thread Marco Balle
We have some Dual AMD MP Systems. Every system has already a 2.6 kernel.
Sure I can also run much more than 72 slots on the Xeons, but not with the
HalfLife linux gameserver (bf / mohaa / ... works).
Yes, we can run on the Amd MPs a few slots more (compared on CPU speed with
Xeon), but not enough. Compare this with windows servers and you will see,
you have much more CPU usage on every linux systems.
I suggest you to read some benchmarks about Amd MP and Intel Xeon CPUs.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/200203131/index.html



-
Marco


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Fernicola
 Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 1:03 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

 If you cant run 50 slots on a dual xeon 2.66ghz then your problem is not
 with valve although they do suck.  The problem is you and your server.

 Next time spend your money on a real company like AMD.  Intel is for fan
 boys who like to ride the bandwagon.  AMD crushes Intel in all benchmarks
 with much lower clock speeds bottom __

 Sell your Dual Intel and get a dual AMD.  Next Install slackware 9.1 and
 recompile with 2.6 kernel.  After that you should be able to handle up 72
 slots




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Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-23 Thread Shane Robinett aka Weaver
You guys sounds like a team of female cheer leaders. rah rah AMD rah rah
AMD. I don't know if it's just NETFIRE blowing smoke up your butts or if
you've actually gone out and tried to prove it.  50 slots? please.  The box
you specified can handle 3 times that.

I've bench marked and can prove that our dual process XEON 2.4 Ghz machines
out perform our AMD 2400XP boxes with equivelent specs when it comes to
HLDS.  Primary comparison is based on thread counts, over all reported CPU
usage based on # of slots.

Intels run cooler - with more stability - and faster. A little more money? I
am happy to pay it.  We bought /only/ AMD for the first year of our
existance and when we switched to Intel a year and a 1/2 a go - our support
problems dropped dramatically.

-Shane


- Original Message -
From: Britt Priddy (PZGN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


Actually - he's right regarding Valves software...  they develop on AMD -
and compile under AMD - so it makes sense it runs / performs better under
AMD.


- Original Message -
From: James Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


 real company like AMD

I'm not quite sure where you got that from

Considering Intel have more than 80% market share and AMD only have 15%
it seems not many people agree with you there.

Stop talking shit - it only starts big long threads pointlessly trying
to argue the merits of each company.



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett
Fernicola
Sent: 23 November 2003 00:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

If you cant run 50 slots on a dual xeon 2.66ghz then your problem is not
with valve although they do suck.  The problem is you and your server.

Next time spend your money on a real company like AMD.  Intel is for fan
boys who like to ride the bandwagon.  AMD crushes Intel in all
benchmarks
with much lower clock speeds bottom __

Sell your Dual Intel and get a dual AMD.  Next Install slackware 9.1 and
recompile with 2.6 kernel.  After that you should be able to handle up
72
slots


- Original Message -
From: Marco Balle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


Well, we stop renting halflife servers this weekend.
New games are ready to rent for us (most Q3 engine, which runs really
great). I don't believe Valve (Alfred) is able to fix the cpu issue this
year. I think he does everything he can to make the best for it, but we
can
not run only 50Slots on a Dual Xeon 2,66GHz anymore.
So we first drop the CPU hungry HL servers. That's the only way to keep
our
Server rental alive.
The problem is known about many month and nothing is happened to solve
this.
Maybe the work to solve this problem is too expensive for valve, so we
change our Gameserver offer.

I think Alfred did a great job, but he was not able to fix the cpu
issue.
Don't know why, but I think there is a good reason.

So long..

-
Marco


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mad Scientist
 Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:10 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

 According to the great words of Jay Anstiss:
  Hey folks - could use a bit of help here...I'm about to get back to
  the thrills of running a CS server again, but I'm unsure which way
to
  go - version 1.5 or 1.6...which do you folks prefer running right
  now? I've heard lots of bad comments from friends about 1.6 but I've
  personally not used it. I used to run 1.5 with HLGuard and adminmod
-
  how does this lot work with 1.6? Also, is it true that HLguard
  doesn't work now since STEAM id's were brought in? I hope we can
  still set these things up to catch cheats!

 1.5 is no longer being supported by Valve, and eventually it will no
 longer work for Internet play since Valve plans to retire the WON
 infrastructure. It's really not much of a choice.

 Personally, if I were starting over, I would go with another game.
 Right now I still have a fairly large community and I feel bad just
 turning off their server, although I do plan on migrating slowly to
 something else once I have selected the new game.

 I would not invest any new money in Valve's games since they have
 clearly demonstrated that the server admin community is not important
 to them.

 -Mad

 --
 A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a
 proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

 - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien



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RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-23 Thread James Sykes
Brett - nobody cares about your opinion.

To everyone else:

Everyone has their own experiences and opinions regarding Intel/AMD.

Intel tends to be the first choice for larger organizations for several
reasons:

1 - To my knowledge - none of the top 5 servers manufacturers make AMD
MP based systems. (surely that’s saying something already)

2 - Compatibility - nothing beats an Intel chipset and processor when it
comes to compatibility.

3 - Dependability - People have used Intel for years and they are not
about to stop - they buy into what they know - its worked well for them
in the past so there's no reason to think it wont in the future.

AMD users generally buy AMD because :

1 - cheaper
2 - more bang for your buck

I concede that AMD systems are generally faster than the Intel
equivalent.
However Intel is winning when it comes to shear speed. The XP3200 is
2.2ghz and it simply cant compete with a P4 3.2ghz. Memory speed on the
Intel platform is also much faster than AMD.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane
Robinett aka Weaver
Sent: 23 November 2003 13:39
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

You guys sounds like a team of female cheer leaders. rah rah AMD rah rah
AMD. I don't know if it's just NETFIRE blowing smoke up your butts or if
you've actually gone out and tried to prove it.  50 slots? please.  The
box
you specified can handle 3 times that.

I've bench marked and can prove that our dual process XEON 2.4 Ghz
machines
out perform our AMD 2400XP boxes with equivelent specs when it comes to
HLDS.  Primary comparison is based on thread counts, over all reported
CPU
usage based on # of slots.

Intels run cooler - with more stability - and faster. A little more
money? I
am happy to pay it.  We bought /only/ AMD for the first year of our
existance and when we switched to Intel a year and a 1/2 a go - our
support
problems dropped dramatically.

-Shane


- Original Message -
From: Britt Priddy (PZGN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


Actually - he's right regarding Valves software...  they develop on AMD
-
and compile under AMD - so it makes sense it runs / performs better
under
AMD.


- Original Message -
From: James Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


 real company like AMD

I'm not quite sure where you got that from

Considering Intel have more than 80% market share and AMD only have 15%
it seems not many people agree with you there.

Stop talking shit - it only starts big long threads pointlessly trying
to argue the merits of each company.



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett
Fernicola
Sent: 23 November 2003 00:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

If you cant run 50 slots on a dual xeon 2.66ghz then your problem is not
with valve although they do suck.  The problem is you and your server.

Next time spend your money on a real company like AMD.  Intel is for fan
boys who like to ride the bandwagon.  AMD crushes Intel in all
benchmarks
with much lower clock speeds bottom __

Sell your Dual Intel and get a dual AMD.  Next Install slackware 9.1 and
recompile with 2.6 kernel.  After that you should be able to handle up
72
slots


- Original Message -
From: Marco Balle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


Well, we stop renting halflife servers this weekend.
New games are ready to rent for us (most Q3 engine, which runs really
great). I don't believe Valve (Alfred) is able to fix the cpu issue this
year. I think he does everything he can to make the best for it, but we
can
not run only 50Slots on a Dual Xeon 2,66GHz anymore.
So we first drop the CPU hungry HL servers. That's the only way to keep
our
Server rental alive.
The problem is known about many month and nothing is happened to solve
this.
Maybe the work to solve this problem is too expensive for valve, so we
change our Gameserver offer.

I think Alfred did a great job, but he was not able to fix the cpu
issue.
Don't know why, but I think there is a good reason.

So long..

-
Marco


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mad Scientist
 Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:10 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

 According to the great words of Jay Anstiss:
  Hey folks - could use a bit of help here...I'm about to get back to
  the thrills of running a CS server again, but I'm unsure which way
to
  go - version 1.5 or 1.6...which do you folks prefer running right
  now? I've heard lots of bad comments from friends about 1.6 but I've
  personally not used

RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-23 Thread Roach

Well, we stop renting halflife servers this weekend.

New games are ready to rent for us (most Q3 engine, which runs really


I recall a website that showed the number of players playing each game...
Anyone know of a site, or sites, that do that?? I'm just interested to see
where the trend is going



Roach



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Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-23 Thread Nelson Marques
Marco Balle wrote:

We have some Dual AMD MP Systems. Every system has already a 2.6 kernel.
Sure I can also run much more than 72 slots on the Xeons, but not with the
HalfLife linux gameserver (bf / mohaa / ... works).
Yes, we can run on the Amd MPs a few slots more (compared on CPU speed with
Xeon), but not enough. Compare this with windows servers and you will see,
you have much more CPU usage on every linux systems.
I suggest you to read some benchmarks about Amd MP and Intel Xeon CPUs.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/200203131/index.html



Ur a funny guy, and special, I would go calling names into people... but
since when does a AMD MP matches a Intel Xeon ? not in this world mate.
I will be calling stupid to anyone who tries to relate AMD MP with Intel
Xeon, because they are both very different. Just for you information the
MP is nothing more than a AMD XP with a couple more of routines for SMP
optimization. Xeon is much more than that, try comparing a Lusitan Horse
with a mule, it's the same kind of comparison.
nelson

-
Marco



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Fernicola
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 1:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6
If you cant run 50 slots on a dual xeon 2.66ghz then your problem is not
with valve although they do suck.  The problem is you and your server.
Next time spend your money on a real company like AMD.  Intel is for fan
boys who like to ride the bandwagon.  AMD crushes Intel in all benchmarks
with much lower clock speeds bottom __
Sell your Dual Intel and get a dual AMD.  Next Install slackware 9.1 and
recompile with 2.6 kernel.  After that you should be able to handle up 72
slots





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Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-23 Thread Nelson Marques
James Sykes wrote:

Brett - nobody cares about your opinion.

To everyone else:

Everyone has their own experiences and opinions regarding Intel/AMD.

Intel tends to be the first choice for larger organizations for several
reasons:
1 - To my knowledge - none of the top 5 servers manufacturers make AMD
MP based systems. (surely thats saying something already)


What you talking about ? What 5 manufacturers ? gimme the names of them.

2 - Compatibility - nothing beats an Intel chipset and processor when it
comes to compatibility.

Prove it. How can you test compatibility ? just let me know, really
interested on that.
3 - Dependability - People have used Intel for years and they are not
about to stop - they buy into what they know - its worked well for them
in the past so there's no reason to think it wont in the future.


Well, people have been using ALPHA for years, and so far it is the best
munching cpu I've seen, no Ultra Sparc can beat that, specially not a
Xeon. The future is a 64 bit or more CPU, and not intel man. Intel has
no future on high end systems.
AMD users generally buy AMD because :

1 - cheaper
2 - more bang for your buck
I concede that AMD systems are generally faster than the Intel
equivalent.
However Intel is winning when it comes to shear speed. The XP3200 is
2.2ghz and it simply cant compete with a P4 3.2ghz. Memory speed on the
Intel platform is also much faster than AMD.


Memory speed ? What kinda servers do you use ? Usually any intel based
server uses PC2600 ECC. Why do you need more for ?
Nelson

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane
Robinett aka Weaver
Sent: 23 November 2003 13:39
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6
You guys sounds like a team of female cheer leaders. rah rah AMD rah rah
AMD. I don't know if it's just NETFIRE blowing smoke up your butts or if
you've actually gone out and tried to prove it.  50 slots? please.  The
box
you specified can handle 3 times that.
I've bench marked and can prove that our dual process XEON 2.4 Ghz
machines
out perform our AMD 2400XP boxes with equivelent specs when it comes to
HLDS.  Primary comparison is based on thread counts, over all reported
CPU
usage based on # of slots.
Intels run cooler - with more stability - and faster. A little more
money? I
am happy to pay it.  We bought /only/ AMD for the first year of our
existance and when we switched to Intel a year and a 1/2 a go - our
support
problems dropped dramatically.
-Shane

- Original Message -
From: Britt Priddy (PZGN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6
Actually - he's right regarding Valves software...  they develop on AMD
-
and compile under AMD - so it makes sense it runs / performs better
under
AMD.
- Original Message -
From: James Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6



real company like AMD


I'm not quite sure where you got that from

Considering Intel have more than 80% market share and AMD only have 15%
it seems not many people agree with you there.
Stop talking shit - it only starts big long threads pointlessly trying
to argue the merits of each company.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett
Fernicola
Sent: 23 November 2003 00:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6
If you cant run 50 slots on a dual xeon 2.66ghz then your problem is not
with valve although they do suck.  The problem is you and your server.
Next time spend your money on a real company like AMD.  Intel is for fan
boys who like to ride the bandwagon.  AMD crushes Intel in all
benchmarks
with much lower clock speeds bottom __
Sell your Dual Intel and get a dual AMD.  Next Install slackware 9.1 and
recompile with 2.6 kernel.  After that you should be able to handle up
72
slots
- Original Message -
From: Marco Balle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6
Well, we stop renting halflife servers this weekend.
New games are ready to rent for us (most Q3 engine, which runs really
great). I don't believe Valve (Alfred) is able to fix the cpu issue this
year. I think he does everything he can to make the best for it, but we
can
not run only 50Slots on a Dual Xeon 2,66GHz anymore.
So we first drop the CPU hungry HL servers. That's the only way to keep
our
Server rental alive.
The problem is known about many month and nothing is happened to solve
this.
Maybe the work to solve this problem is too expensive for valve, so we
change our Gameserver offer.
I think Alfred did a great job, but he was not able to fix the cpu
issue.
Don't know why, but I think there is a good reason.
So long..

-
Marco



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL

Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-23 Thread Britt Priddy \(PZGN\)
We run both - Intel and AMD - just on the Intel side - stay away from
Celerons - they blow with their 128k L2 Cache - snap it up to a 512k L2 and
you'll be fine - but performance as far as Valves software is concerned does
perform better on AMD's with 512k L2 Cache - we tested in all possible CPU's
with Intel and AMD - the best we've got is an AMD 2800+ - with 1 gig ddram -
40 slots (2 20 player processes) - no choke / latency - its good.  Intel -
you'll see a little choke / jerkyness - even with 512k cache - but nothing
that would make you go 'blah' this is unplayable.


- Original Message -
From: James Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 9:42 AM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


Brett - nobody cares about your opinion.

To everyone else:

Everyone has their own experiences and opinions regarding Intel/AMD.

Intel tends to be the first choice for larger organizations for several
reasons:

1 - To my knowledge - none of the top 5 servers manufacturers make AMD
MP based systems. (surely that's saying something already)

2 - Compatibility - nothing beats an Intel chipset and processor when it
comes to compatibility.

3 - Dependability - People have used Intel for years and they are not
about to stop - they buy into what they know - its worked well for them
in the past so there's no reason to think it wont in the future.

AMD users generally buy AMD because :

1 - cheaper
2 - more bang for your buck

I concede that AMD systems are generally faster than the Intel
equivalent.
However Intel is winning when it comes to shear speed. The XP3200 is
2.2ghz and it simply cant compete with a P4 3.2ghz. Memory speed on the
Intel platform is also much faster than AMD.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane
Robinett aka Weaver
Sent: 23 November 2003 13:39
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

You guys sounds like a team of female cheer leaders. rah rah AMD rah rah
AMD. I don't know if it's just NETFIRE blowing smoke up your butts or if
you've actually gone out and tried to prove it.  50 slots? please.  The
box
you specified can handle 3 times that.

I've bench marked and can prove that our dual process XEON 2.4 Ghz
machines
out perform our AMD 2400XP boxes with equivelent specs when it comes to
HLDS.  Primary comparison is based on thread counts, over all reported
CPU
usage based on # of slots.

Intels run cooler - with more stability - and faster. A little more
money? I
am happy to pay it.  We bought /only/ AMD for the first year of our
existance and when we switched to Intel a year and a 1/2 a go - our
support
problems dropped dramatically.

-Shane


- Original Message -
From: Britt Priddy (PZGN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


Actually - he's right regarding Valves software...  they develop on AMD
-
and compile under AMD - so it makes sense it runs / performs better
under
AMD.


- Original Message -
From: James Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


 real company like AMD

I'm not quite sure where you got that from

Considering Intel have more than 80% market share and AMD only have 15%
it seems not many people agree with you there.

Stop talking shit - it only starts big long threads pointlessly trying
to argue the merits of each company.



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett
Fernicola
Sent: 23 November 2003 00:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

If you cant run 50 slots on a dual xeon 2.66ghz then your problem is not
with valve although they do suck.  The problem is you and your server.

Next time spend your money on a real company like AMD.  Intel is for fan
boys who like to ride the bandwagon.  AMD crushes Intel in all
benchmarks
with much lower clock speeds bottom __

Sell your Dual Intel and get a dual AMD.  Next Install slackware 9.1 and
recompile with 2.6 kernel.  After that you should be able to handle up
72
slots


- Original Message -
From: Marco Balle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


Well, we stop renting halflife servers this weekend.
New games are ready to rent for us (most Q3 engine, which runs really
great). I don't believe Valve (Alfred) is able to fix the cpu issue this
year. I think he does everything he can to make the best for it, but we
can
not run only 50Slots on a Dual Xeon 2,66GHz anymore.
So we first drop the CPU hungry HL servers. That's the only way to keep
our
Server rental alive.
The problem is known about many month and nothing is happened to solve
this.
Maybe the work to solve this problem is too expensive for valve, so we
change

RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-23 Thread D. Batastini
http://www.gamers-search.de/

You have to do some playing around in the search area, but I believe its
under server overview...

D.Batastini

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roach
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 11:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6



Well, we stop renting halflife servers this weekend.

New games are ready to rent for us (most Q3 engine, which runs really


I recall a website that showed the number of players playing each game...
Anyone know of a site, or sites, that do that?? I'm just interested to see
where the trend is going



Roach



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Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-23 Thread Eric (Deacon)
Man...is it just me, or has this list gotten stupider and stupider since
I started lurking?
--
Eric (the Deacon remix)


Nelson Marques wrote:
Ur a funny guy, and special, I would go calling names into people... but
since when does a AMD MP matches a Intel Xeon ? not in this world mate.
I will be calling stupid to anyone who tries to relate AMD MP with Intel
Xeon, because they are both very different. Just for you information the
MP is nothing more than a AMD XP with a couple more of routines for SMP
optimization. Xeon is much more than that, try comparing a Lusitan Horse
with a mule, it's the same kind of comparison.


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Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-22 Thread Britt Priddy \(PZGN\)
Actually - he's right regarding Valves software...  they develop on AMD -
and compile under AMD - so it makes sense it runs / performs better under
AMD.


- Original Message -
From: James Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


 real company like AMD

I'm not quite sure where you got that from

Considering Intel have more than 80% market share and AMD only have 15%
it seems not many people agree with you there.

Stop talking shit - it only starts big long threads pointlessly trying
to argue the merits of each company.



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett
Fernicola
Sent: 23 November 2003 00:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

If you cant run 50 slots on a dual xeon 2.66ghz then your problem is not
with valve although they do suck.  The problem is you and your server.

Next time spend your money on a real company like AMD.  Intel is for fan
boys who like to ride the bandwagon.  AMD crushes Intel in all
benchmarks
with much lower clock speeds bottom __

Sell your Dual Intel and get a dual AMD.  Next Install slackware 9.1 and
recompile with 2.6 kernel.  After that you should be able to handle up
72
slots


- Original Message -
From: Marco Balle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


Well, we stop renting halflife servers this weekend.
New games are ready to rent for us (most Q3 engine, which runs really
great). I don't believe Valve (Alfred) is able to fix the cpu issue this
year. I think he does everything he can to make the best for it, but we
can
not run only 50Slots on a Dual Xeon 2,66GHz anymore.
So we first drop the CPU hungry HL servers. That's the only way to keep
our
Server rental alive.
The problem is known about many month and nothing is happened to solve
this.
Maybe the work to solve this problem is too expensive for valve, so we
change our Gameserver offer.

I think Alfred did a great job, but he was not able to fix the cpu
issue.
Don't know why, but I think there is a good reason.

So long..

-
Marco


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mad Scientist
 Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:10 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

 According to the great words of Jay Anstiss:
  Hey folks - could use a bit of help here...I'm about to get back to
  the thrills of running a CS server again, but I'm unsure which way
to
  go - version 1.5 or 1.6...which do you folks prefer running right
  now? I've heard lots of bad comments from friends about 1.6 but I've
  personally not used it. I used to run 1.5 with HLGuard and adminmod
-
  how does this lot work with 1.6? Also, is it true that HLguard
  doesn't work now since STEAM id's were brought in? I hope we can
  still set these things up to catch cheats!

 1.5 is no longer being supported by Valve, and eventually it will no
 longer work for Internet play since Valve plans to retire the WON
 infrastructure. It's really not much of a choice.

 Personally, if I were starting over, I would go with another game.
 Right now I still have a fairly large community and I feel bad just
 turning off their server, although I do plan on migrating slowly to
 something else once I have selected the new game.

 I would not invest any new money in Valve's games since they have
 clearly demonstrated that the server admin community is not important
 to them.

 -Mad

 --
 A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a
 proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

 - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien



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Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

2003-11-22 Thread Brett Fernicola
Not only are you correct, but the highest bechmarks for most of the
intensive applications out there being run on standard equipement are held
by AMD 64bit FX systems.  Intel has nothing to match pound for pound against
the AMD 64bit FX.  G5 comes close but no cigar.  Itanium 1 or even 2 sorry
not a chance.

Lets not forget our gamers.  If your a true gamer you jerk off to a Dual AMD
64Bit FX system with an ATI 9800 OC, and 4 Gb of mushkin DDR.  Sorry but no
Intel system is on any gamers dream list at the moment.  I dont have
favorites, they change month to month according to whose top dog at the
moment.  Believe me I would never own an AMD pruduct prior to the
Thunderbird, or and ATI product prior to the 9700.



- Original Message -
From: Britt Priddy (PZGN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


Actually - he's right regarding Valves software...  they develop on AMD -
and compile under AMD - so it makes sense it runs / performs better under
AMD.


- Original Message -
From: James Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


 real company like AMD

I'm not quite sure where you got that from

Considering Intel have more than 80% market share and AMD only have 15%
it seems not many people agree with you there.

Stop talking shit - it only starts big long threads pointlessly trying
to argue the merits of each company.



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett
Fernicola
Sent: 23 November 2003 00:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

If you cant run 50 slots on a dual xeon 2.66ghz then your problem is not
with valve although they do suck.  The problem is you and your server.

Next time spend your money on a real company like AMD.  Intel is for fan
boys who like to ride the bandwagon.  AMD crushes Intel in all
benchmarks
with much lower clock speeds bottom __

Sell your Dual Intel and get a dual AMD.  Next Install slackware 9.1 and
recompile with 2.6 kernel.  After that you should be able to handle up
72
slots


- Original Message -
From: Marco Balle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6


Well, we stop renting halflife servers this weekend.
New games are ready to rent for us (most Q3 engine, which runs really
great). I don't believe Valve (Alfred) is able to fix the cpu issue this
year. I think he does everything he can to make the best for it, but we
can
not run only 50Slots on a Dual Xeon 2,66GHz anymore.
So we first drop the CPU hungry HL servers. That's the only way to keep
our
Server rental alive.
The problem is known about many month and nothing is happened to solve
this.
Maybe the work to solve this problem is too expensive for valve, so we
change our Gameserver offer.

I think Alfred did a great job, but he was not able to fix the cpu
issue.
Don't know why, but I think there is a good reason.

So long..

-
Marco


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mad Scientist
 Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:10 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HLDS CS 1.5 or 1.6

 According to the great words of Jay Anstiss:
  Hey folks - could use a bit of help here...I'm about to get back to
  the thrills of running a CS server again, but I'm unsure which way
to
  go - version 1.5 or 1.6...which do you folks prefer running right
  now? I've heard lots of bad comments from friends about 1.6 but I've
  personally not used it. I used to run 1.5 with HLGuard and adminmod
-
  how does this lot work with 1.6? Also, is it true that HLguard
  doesn't work now since STEAM id's were brought in? I hope we can
  still set these things up to catch cheats!

 1.5 is no longer being supported by Valve, and eventually it will no
 longer work for Internet play since Valve plans to retire the WON
 infrastructure. It's really not much of a choice.

 Personally, if I were starting over, I would go with another game.
 Right now I still have a fairly large community and I feel bad just
 turning off their server, although I do plan on migrating slowly to
 something else once I have selected the new game.

 I would not invest any new money in Valve's games since they have
 clearly demonstrated that the server admin community is not important
 to them.

 -Mad

 --
 A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a
 proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

 - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien



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