What is the performance penalty if I disable this benchmark?

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Fug1t1v3 <f...@onlyskill.eu> wrote:
> just put in the end of .bashrc for every user you start servers with
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> On 27 June 2011 12:24, Svensk Ljud & Ljus Produktion 
> <i...@teaterljud.se>wrote:
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>> Thanks sir !
>> I will take a look at rewrite all start scripts then, ill guess its would
>> be suffient to execute "export RDTSC_FREQUENCY=2400.00000" once when the
>> server-machine is started.
>>
>> And running the srcds at "fps_max 0" or 1000 is reducing the cpu-usage then
>> server is empty, but it not optimal for our server settings.
>>
>> Peter
>> Sweden
>>
>>  Milton Ngan skrev 2011-06-27 05:31:
>>
>>  You need to set this in your environment before you launch the game
>>>
>>> export RDTSC_FREQUENCY=2400.00000
>>> ./srcds_run -game tf ....
>>>
>>> This will bypass the benchmark. But each machine may be different. This is
>>> benchmark is part of the real time clock optimization that we had added into
>>> the L4D dedicated server.
>>>
>>> M.
>>>
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: 
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>>> On Behalf Of Svensk Ljud&  Ljus Produktion
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>>> Subject: [hlds_linux] This new Benchmark - how to set and recommendations
>>> would be nice.
>>>
>>> Ive just had some time to read the logs to find the RDTSC_FREQUENCY and
>>> it was rather easy.
>>>
>>> [code]
>>> /HLDS installation up to date
>>> Running a benchmark to measure system clock frequency...
>>> Finished RDTSC test. To prevent the startup delay from this benchmark,
>>> set the environment variable RDTSC_FREQUENCY to 2400.000000 on this
>>> system. This value is dependent upon the CPU clock speed and
>>> architecture and should be determined separately for each server. The
>>> use of this mechanism for timing can be disabled by setting
>>> RDTSC_FREQUENCY to 'disabled'.
>>> Using breakpad minidump system/
>>> [/code]
>>>
>>> In this case should I add this to server.cfg or ?
>>> [code]
>>> /RDTSC_FREQUENCY 2400.000000/
>>> [/code]
>>>
>>> But how is the recommendations to make the servers to use the cpu:usage
>>> as before the update ?
>>>
>>> It would be nice to hear some info from the dev.team or someone close :)
>>>
>>> Peter
>>> Sweden
>>>
>>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
>>> ------------
>>>
>>> Ps. my previus post
>>>
>>> /We have machines with both Debian and Fedora srcds-servers running and
>>> all is showing high spu usage.
>>> Its both TF2 and DoD:S running on them and we monitor all with munin.
>>>
>>> This is a pic from a debian 64-bit server with 4 cores Xeon running 2
>>> dods servers.
>>> http://url.dayofdefeat.se/**pics/cpu-week-Ferm.png<http://url.dayofdefeat.se/pics/cpu-week-Ferm.png>
>>> uname -a: Linux-2.6.33.5-rt23-ub-100hz #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Wed Jul 14
>>> 13:41:19 CEST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> This is a pic from a Fedora server running 1 dods + 2 TF2 servers on 4
>>> cores.
>>> http://url.dayofdefeat.se/**pics/cpu-week-Trelle.png<http://url.dayofdefeat.se/pics/cpu-week-Trelle.png>
>>> uname a: Linux-2 2.6.34 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 22 10:33:46 CEST 2010
>>> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> I do hope its possible to find the problem.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>> Sweden /
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