sorry if this is a double post, it's my first time posting, I have been a lurker.
I would like to throw my two cents in this, It just so happens two days ago I was researching information in the steam forums and ran across a thread from the EMF wargod guy, he posted his rates and talked about running 20 servers at once. So I tried it.(kinda)(note he has banned by his name in the forums) I have a Dual P4 1ghz, 2.5gm ram, Ultra 320 SCSI HD, W3k Ent. Server. running on a very fat pipe on the backbone. Below is my normal setup I have our Main Source server running abovenormal priority on CPU 0 I have a 24/7 Source scoutknivez server running abovenormal priority on CPU 1 I also keep a cs 1.6 server running << but NO ONE ever plays on it. I am not running any -tickrate or high freq. timer like media player. I adjusted my rates per the example of the EMF guy, << usually I keep things opened up more, but I wanted to try more than two servers. Here is a copy/paste from the relevant parts of the server.cfg file the EMF guy posted sv_maxrate "8192" sv_minrate "2048" sv_maxupdaterate "60" sv_max_usercmd_future_ticks "8" sv_maxunlag "1" sv_maxvelocity "3500." sv_minupdaterate "10" I average about 15% CPU utilization as a constant, but I get LOTS of peaks as high as 80%, during map changes it goes to 100% Last night I added another 24/7 <map> source server running on CPU 1 and abovenormal priority It filled up very fast. So I had about 45 people on total for all three servers. This did not work out for me, even though I had my main source server on a CPU by itself I was getting all kinda of CPU lag when I played on it. If someone threw a bomb the players froze for a second. or a big firefight it lagged out. I checked DU meter and was running about 1.5mpbs bandwidth when all three server were full, << I have a 6mbps pipe. As soon as I shut down the second 24/7 server all calmed down and both servers ran well. I guess my point is to help anyone reading this as to what I get from the specs of my server, __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
