you were right ... if you run it as root it make use of the realtime scheduler and set itself to -3 as priority...
is this normal? "ZOMG running az r00t makes it quicker and faster, 100000fps here I come" :D Il 29/09/2012 19:03, Marco Padovan ha scritto: > Hi, > > thanks for your feedback, never run the server as root so I never > noticed this *weird* behaviour :S > This specific unprivileged user (/*not root*/) I'm doing the tests > with is allowed to set realtime scheduler for its own processes. > > Kernel is: 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64 (official binary shipped by centos) > > What I can't understand is why srcds_linux tries to do such change on > its own... If I wanted to see it make use of realtime scheduler I > would do that when starting... I do not like processes doing things by > their own :S > > Additionally this kind of behaviour would make people run the > gameservers as root because it will magically performs "better" thanks > to the automatic scheduler changes :O > Are we opening a Pandora's box? :D > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 13660 testtf2 -3 0 288m 174m 19m S 9.6 1.5 0:10.58 srcds_linux > 13653 testtf2 20 0 103m 1568 1224 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 srcds_run > > > pid 13660's current scheduling policy: SCHED_RR > pid 13660's current scheduling priority: 2 > > pid 13653's current scheduling policy: SCHED_OTHER > pid 13653's current scheduling priority: 0 > > let me see what happens when running as root :) > > > > Il 29/09/2012 18:35, Ulrich Block ha scritto: >> Am 29.09.2012 18:30, schrieb Marco Padovan: >>> Hi, thanks for your reply. >>> >>> In my case it is not srcds_run doing that, it's srcds_linux that does >>> something. >>> >>> "priority" changes a few seconds after srcds_linux has started (right >>> after "create 4 threads" gets printed into the console log). >>> >>> In my case it's changing its own scheduling parameters moving from the >>> SCHED_OTHER into SCHED_RR. >> >> Which kernel are you using? And most importantly which user runs the >> server? I saw such a behaviour when someone was running everything >> with root. >> >> A normal system user should not have the permission to change the >> prio or the scheduling. The root user does. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
