RE: [hlds_linux] Re: Be ready--SCO to sue everything Linux???

2003-03-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Here it comes, the ubiquitous: I told you so. ;) $1 Billion? You've got to be fucking kidding me StanTheMan rcon admin at: Beer for Breakfast servershttp://bfb.bogleg.org/ 66.111.111.66:27015 (CS multi-map) 66.111.111.66:27016 (CS militia/dust2)Dallas, TX

RE: [hlds_linux] Re: [OT} Be ready--SCO to sue everything Linux???

2003-03-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
In any case, I guess this dashes my dream of running 500 instances of HLDS on the 390 I have at the office ;- That, and the fact that the S390 processing complex wouldn't have enough horsepower to run 500 HLDS servers (unless they were like 4 player servers). And, assuming at least 64MB per

RE: [hlds_linux] CS-server behind router

2003-02-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
my thoughts: IP:PORT from the network-package AFTER NAT for example my server has ip 192.168.1.3, port 27015. Now the router get's the package and changes the ip to my online-ip and uses a random port. So the server apears at the masterlist, but with a wrong port. So connecting via

RE: [hlds_linux] CS-server behind router

2003-02-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
How does the won/masterserver get the port? Is the sending-port used (which is after NAT not the port the server is listening)? Valve would have the authoritative answer on this. If observation of the behavior of the WON servers is a correct indicator, then yes, the WON server strips and uses

[hlds_linux] Be ready--SCO to sue everything Linux???

2003-01-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Just caught wind of this: http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=99965 It looks like SCO is gearing up to sue everyone using Linux into paying for Unix licenses, since SCO owns the Unix source code. If you look at this: http://www.sco.com/scosource/unixtree/unixhistory01.html, it appears

RE: [hlds_linux] Be ready--SCO to sue everything Linux???

2003-01-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
hrmm, there's nothing in there about suing linux users, nor is there anything that even remotely closely resembles an urge to do so. Ok, before the next person says this same thing, look carefully at this part of the press release: The appointment of David Boies and the law firm of Boies,

[hlds_linux] Aimbot influx on your server lately?

2003-01-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Anyone else notice an influx of aimbots on their servers recently? Like in the last week or so? Our admin mailing list and IRC channel have been pretty quiet lately, until this past weekish period. All of a sudden, we're banning aimbotters left/right, emails are flying among admins, and people

RE: [hlds_linux] Is anti-terrorism killing my ping?

2002-12-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Thx for all the suggestions and help gentlemen. Two additional questions: 1. Why does Debian (Potato and Woody) not seem to include iputils in a default net install? I've had to install traceroute and tracepath manually on all 3. Strange these handy (and nesessary) little tools aren't part

RE: [hlds_linux] How *not* to water-cool your computer(s)

2002-12-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=56924 Useful information for those with heat issues in 1U cases and are thinking about water cooling as a solution. I think he lied during forum registration. He's got to be from Poland, not Ireland, to do something like that. Then

RE: [hlds_linux] [OT]Memory management- WAS Xeon vs P3

2002-12-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
(Somebody want to explain what that means - Stan?) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q247904 That article explains the windows terminal services problem thoroughly. Why are we discussing a microsoft OS memory management problem on this list? Oh, maybe memory management

RE: [hlds_linux] [OT] Xeon vs P3

2002-12-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Xeons could be better. They're not just an SMP capable P4. Ahh, but that's exactly what the new Xeon is-- an SMP capable P4. The only differences are SMP and the optional L3 cache sizes (and hyperthreading, although the latest--3Ghz--P4 has it also). Also keep in mind that the XeonDP doesn't

RE: [hlds_linux] Binary Port

2002-11-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
I want to know who at valve I can talk to about either getting some binaries complied or possibly, starting a new MIPS and SPARC linux port which I would like to assume responsibility for. Does anyone here know who I could possibly contact at valve? Is it best to just email [EMAIL

RE: [hlds_linux] gaming cluster.

2002-11-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
I would tend to disagree. If you rewrite it from scratch, why shouldn't you be able to benefit from concurrent execution? It might benefit. I just don't think that a significant portion of the processing load could be done concurrently...maybe it could. Maybe spawn a thread to handle the

RE: [hlds_linux] Unix on Sparc CPUs (sun Station)

2002-11-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
) 209.41.98.2:27017 (CS militia/dust2)Dallas, TX - Original Message - From: Stan Hoeppner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:08 AM Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] Unix on Sparc CPUs (sun Station) | | From the list archive (actually *my

[hlds_linux] [OT] some help installing debian on Smart2/P array

2002-11-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
I would greatly appreciate anyone's help on this. I don't have install source (no burner =\) for Debian. I've always done my installs with boot disks and the mirrors. And, I've never installed onto a hardware RAID controller array (just IDE and plain SCSI). So, the boot disks I have, compact,

RE: [hlds_linux] gaming cluster.

2002-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
I'm reading all these interesting methods for gaming clusters and such, but after all the information coming in, it still seems like a single, multi-CPU machine would be better for these types of tasks. Is this not the case? I would tend to agree. It seems like it'd be cheaper, too,

RE: [hlds_linux] gaming cluster.

2002-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Yeah, thats wrong. I read the FAQ before I started but I'm still not sure how networking works. I guess any process I start even if its migrated to another system keeps the IP of its parent node? So, data would come into the parent node then be forwarded to wherever the process is? As

RE: P3 vs P4 vs Athlon was: Re: [hlds_linux] CPU Usage?

2002-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
I would never have considered running AMDs in a 1u rack mount regardless. but if you did, I could see that heat could become a small problem, especially if you cramming a few high speed HDDs into that small space as well. Satndard mini tower with front and back fans seems to run at

RE: [hlds_linux] RE: P3 vs P4 vs Athlon was: Re: [hlds_linux] CPU Usage?

2002-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Anyone out there using TEC modules (Thermo-electric cooling AKA Peltier device) ? I am really looking into it for a dual P3 system. About the only people using peltiers are serious overclockers. If you put them inside a server (especially a small one like 1U or 2U), they'll have to be

RE: [hlds_linux] Laggy Server

2002-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Internet server, or LAN server? If internet server, what is the size of the internet pipe? StanTheMan TheHardwareFreak http://www.hardwarefreak.com rcon admin at: Beer for Breakfast servershttp://bfb.bogleg.org/ 209.41.98.2:27016 (CS multi-map) 209.41.98.2:27015 (DoD)

RE: [hlds_linux] RE: P3 vs P4 vs Athlon was: Re: [hlds_linux] CPU Usage?

2002-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
You'll need (stan?) about 3x the airflow to keep this monster at a decent temperature. I won't even guess at a ratio. I just wouldn't run peltiers in a server at all, especially a 1U or 2U. Most Peltier using overclockers tend to couple them with water cooling as its heat carrying

RE: [hlds_linux] gaming cluster.

2002-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
I'd like to know how Ryan came up with 50 milliseconds of latency for GiGE. As m0gely points out, GiGE has a latency measured in *micro* seconds (millionths of a second) in a switched LAN environment. Hell, 100BaseTX and 10BaseT have latency in the lower microsecond range (which is obviously sub

RE: [hlds_linux] gaming cluster.

2002-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
So would openmosix be able to spread an hlds process over multiple cpus in one computer? Didn't I already answer this question? The answer is NO. NO. NO. Mosix can distribute multiple HLDS processes to different CPUs, depending on the load each HLDS process is generating. Mosix works

RE: [hlds_linux] NOW: HLD is NOT threaded -- WAS: Half-Life Server Graphing

2002-11-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
And yes, a single HLDS server IS running on two separate CPU's. It is running on both CPUs, but NOT CONCURRENTLY. What the graph is showing (due to the data capturing method, I assume) is that the single HLDS process is being bounced from one CPU to another. As this bouncing can occur every

RE: [hlds_linux] Half-Life Server Graphing

2002-11-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
yeah works fine in combination with qstat. had a quick setup and I'll enhance the site with cpu, ram and nic stats due to this topic ;-) http://www.igazo.de/mrtg P.S. I prefer mrtg's graphs (rrdtools graphs are ugly :-))) Ok, the URL points to a graph. The vertical legend of the graph

RE: [hlds_linux] [OT] online stats

2002-11-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Personally, I kinda like this one (for CS): http://bfb.bogleg.org/status.pl?s=bfb-cs2 ;) StanTheMan TheHardwareFreak http://www.hardwarefreak.com rcon admin at: Beer for Breakfast servershttp://bfb.bogleg.org/ 209.41.98.2:27016 (CS multi-map) 209.41.98.2:27015 (DoD)

RE: [hlds_linux] New Security Modules -November 4

2002-11-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Well apparently it affected your ability to cheat enough that it prompted you to send this email. Just wait till Valve improves it. Soon, you and your cheating buddies will be out of business. What will you do then? Attempt to mail flood every admin on this list, Karl? Or, wait, is Karl one

RE: [hlds_linux] Half-Life Server Graphing

2002-11-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stan, the numbers along the bottom of the graph are times of the day. It becomes more clear when you click the graph and the entire MRTG history page shows up. It's a standard MRTG x axis quantity. Edge100x Ahh. Thx. Didn't realize the image was linked, heh. Stan