Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread Christoffer Pedersen
1. Its a good question. Many administrators optimizes their kernel to get better performance, which i can recommend. I have en overclocked i7 which runs on 3.73ghz and it did at least not have any problems at all with running a 64 slot server filled with bots. I would say that 3 ghz would do

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread ics
1. I can safely say that Q9550 (2,83GHz) is getting slower by the day to run 30 slots on TF2 at any give time. There are some lagspikes occuring when CPU goes too high. Generally it's still ok. 2. I fail to see why the system needs to switch server process from core to another just to make

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread Evaldas
I have few X3360 and few x3370 Xeons. Interesting thing is that 2.83GHz can't handle 32 players. CPU load is just to high when many players gather to one place. 28 players is maximum that it handles. But the 3GHz version is just enough. Difference? 170Mhz. Strange isn't it? :-) On Sat,

Re: [hlds_linux] Team Fortress 2 Update Released

2011-05-21 Thread Ronny Schedel
FTP uploading is still instable and crashes the server. - Original Message - From: Jason Ruymen jas...@valvesoftware.com To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list' hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com; 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 servermailing list' h...@list.valvesoftware.com;

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread vrod
This may be a little offtopic, you'll be the judge. I just had a new laptop with an Core i7 2720QM processor, and ofc, i tried to compare it to my old i7 950 which runs at stock 3.06 ghz (i have another running 3.73 ghz). The 2,2 ghz processor in the laptop had the same score as the i7 950 which

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread Claudio Beretta
Having to run a 3 years old game server on cutting edge CPUs makes me a sad panda. (yes, I know TF2 was designed for 24 slots... but it still remains a CPU hog, and on linux it is much worse than on windows) ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread Dark Session
The problem of srcds is that it doesn't support multicore. There is a thread with 4 pages in the Steam forums about this problem: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1360745 Nobody knows why Valve won't introduce multicore support... -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread John Marbury
Ooh, that's easy! It's because it's much easier and more profitable to fart out 10 new hats every 2-3 weeks! On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Dark Session darksess...@the-holy-crew.chwrote: The problem of srcds is that it doesn't support multicore. There is a thread with 4 pages in the

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread Sergiusz Bazanski
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:51 PM, John Marbury barreltr...@gmail.com wrote: Ooh, that's easy! It's because it's much easier and more profitable to fart out 10 new hats every 2-3 weeks! You DO realize that the team working on TF2 content isn't the same team that is working on the engine?

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread John Marbury
Yes, how ever that realization is tempered by the fact that I do not care. On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Sergiusz Bazanski se...@q3k.org wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:51 PM, John Marbury barreltr...@gmail.com wrote: Ooh, that's easy! It's because it's much easier and more

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread Black V .
Too busy making hats -Original Message- From: Dark Session Sent: Saturday, 21 May 2011 22:46 To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list' Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset The problem of srcds is that it doesn't support

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 andtaskset

2011-05-21 Thread Ronny Schedel
Start srcds with -threads x (where x is the amount of cores you have) and see if it helps. You can't make every application multithreaded. - Original Message - From: Dark Session darksess...@the-holy-crew.ch To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list'

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread Saul Rennison
I do. It'd take a major engine rewrite, and there is already Source 2 on the way anyway, so what's the point? If you dont believe me, grep the alienswarm code for Source 2. They mention it a couple of times regarding how they've taken code from Source 2 and put it into the Swarm code. Source 2

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread Carl
Yeah, that's IF they release Ep 3. On 5/21/2011 7:29 AM, Saul Rennison wrote: I do. It'd take a major engine rewrite, and there is already Source 2 on the way anyway, so what's the point? If you dont believe me, grep the alienswarm code for Source 2. They mention it a couple of times

Re: [hlds_linux] Team Fortress 2 Update Released

2011-05-21 Thread Eli Witt
Near the end of every map, without fail, I'm not sure where it's happening, but the .dmx files start getting written corrupted, or something. I've got logs of clients trying to download the same .dmx file for hours and hours on end, every 10 seconds. The game server and FTP server are both in the

Re: [hlds_linux] Fix for CVars not being visible

2011-05-21 Thread AnAkIn .
It looks like sv_master_legacy_mode got issues as well, after a changelevel it is reporting the wrong map in HLSW. 2011/5/13 Kyle Sanderson kyle.l...@gmail.com Luckily we have OSW to work around this. You can always use RulesFix written by Asherkin until this is actually fixed.

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread bottige...@gmail.com
How do you get 64 slots on TF2? If you are talking about CSS, I don't think it is comparable to TF2. Also thank you for the related responses, but I am interested in running TWO 32-slot TF2 per physical core. x3370's can only run ONE 32-slot TF2 per physical core. I am wondering what cpu I need

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread Gary Stanley
At 03:06 AM 5/21/2011, Christoffer Pedersen wrote: 1. Its a good question. Many administrators optimizes their kernel to get better performance, which i can recommend. I have en overclocked i7 which runs on 3.73ghz and it did at least not have any problems at all with running a 64 slot server

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread Gary Stanley
At 03:06 AM 5/21/2011, Christoffer Pedersen wrote: 1. Its a good question. Many administrators optimizes their kernel to get better performance, which i can recommend. I have en overclocked i7 which runs on 3.73ghz and it did at least not have any problems at all with running a 64 slot server

Re: [hlds_linux] Questions about minimum CPU for 32 slot TF2 and taskset

2011-05-21 Thread Christoffer Pedersen
It was CSS, maybe it can differ from TF2. A hyperthreaded quadcore would do fine in my opinion. Sent from my iPhone 4 Den 21/05/2011 kl. 17.49 skrev bottige...@gmail.com bottige...@gmail.com: How do you get 64 slots on TF2? If you are talking about CSS, I don't think it is comparable to TF2.

[hlds_linux] Dueling in TF2

2011-05-21 Thread Ian R. Justman
Hi, all. Is there a way to control whether parties can duel on a TF2 server, whether via a normal cvar or via an add-on such as Sourcemod plus a plugin? Thanks. --Ian. -- Ian R. Justman ianj (at) ian-justman.com ___ To unsubscribe, edit your

Re: [hlds_linux] Dueling in TF2

2011-05-21 Thread Brian Simon
You'd have to get a custom plugin for it. Anything that messes with duels has super-high potential for abuse, and thus probably (hopefully) will not be openly available. On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Ian R. Justman i...@ian-justman.comwrote: Hi, all. Is there a way to control whether