On a clean centos or debian install the server will make use of a better scheduling algorithm if run as root.
At this point if nothing changes I'm sure we will see many people running it as root in order to achieve better performance without having to modify a clean centos /debian install Il 03/10/2012 20:56, dan ha scritto: > On 01/10/2012 20:35, Marco Padovan wrote: >> Those changes happens only when running the server as root, if you do >> not run it as root those changes fails and the scheduler/priority is not >> changed... > > Well no, that's not strictly the case. You can allow the changes > without being root > as others have pointed out. > > Privileges and priorities are more granular than "root" "non-root" as > I'm sure you're aware. > >> So if you do not run srcds_linux as root nothing changes... it's like >> those lines where not there :S > > Right... > >> Leaving all the benchmarks and hyphotesis out of the equation I'm just >> asking for a way to disable such kind of "self priority changing" > > Well, we're back where we started, you just said how to make the lines > do nothing - "don't run as root" > >> as a >> bonus to my request I added that in mainly all the servers it does >> nothing (as nearly nobody, untill now, run the servers as root), and >> when it's able to do something it messes up with the system setup :/ > > You can't "leave the benchmarks out of the equation" and then claim > "it messes up with the system setup" > This is where you'd need to show it makes the game run worse. > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
