Heres mine from a week ago. I never got any responses from anyone but i'll throw mine in with yours.
Problem seems to be with just hl1 server hl2 seems to work fine. Since the last update I have had people come to me with servers that randomly spike. Ive had a bit of trouble pinning the problem down. Ive had the one server on 3 different machines. from dual 2.4 xeons no ht to dual 3.2 xeons with ht windows 2000 and windows 2003 Ive verified by network ping from another dc that the network latency is steady when the spike happens. Ive done 2 installs (one straight from the hldsupdater) Ive had no plugins running, meta (1.19p28) amxx 1.6, 1.7 The servers have from 20-40% cpu and about 40-50% memory used so i can rule out cpu/memory i believe. Ive had it on a non hyper threaded box. Ive set it to 1 cpu's affinity. normal, above normal cpu priority. I have performance monitor running and have no real hard drive queue or anything spiky on the box that i can detect. Servers on the same box that have not been updated seem to be fine and are at a normal cpu priority. About the only thing I can tell is restarting the gameserver will make it ok for a while. I do see drops in fps (but no cpu increase ive never seen it over about 30% cpu the game itself in stats) on the servers affected. If i watch 2 consoles side by side one updated one not the updated one will drop down to 20-30 fps (but no extra cpu usage that i can catch)its been difficult to line up with the spiking though it may not spike when that happens. while the nonupdated one will stay around 200 where its set. Anyone else running into this? What happens is everyone in the server will go from say 40-150 to 200 for about 1/2 a second or so but in netgraph the latcncy will stay at 40 or so. There is a definate stutter to the game when this happens. Like windows forgot about the server for a second. It appears to be worse with plugins and metamod running (worse meaning more often.) Im at a loss really since other servers appear fine on the same box. any help would be appreciated. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ShootMe Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 4:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] HLDS performance issues Hi Roman, Here you find the links for the Rollback. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=415184 I'd problems too after update from 8th march (32 slot dods server were laggy like hell) and with rollback it runs perfect again. There are a few threads in the board about this problem but until now, no one cares about it from valve. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=414649 Best regards, Thomas Roman Hatsiev wrote: > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > I've got some pretty vague problem report. Please let me provide some > background first. It is going to be a bit lengthy, sorry. > > I have dual P4-3.2 machine with 2GB RAM which run five 16 slots CS:Source > servers, one 20 slots DOD:Source server and five 16 slots CS 1.6 servers. At > a peak time Source servers are full - 100 slots - while out of five CS > 1.6server only two or three are full - up to 50 slots. With 150 busy > slots both > processors load very rarely hits 100 percent and averages around 80. > The above setup worked just fine, let's say acceptably for a few months. > > Then I got a problem with CS 1.6 servers. I suspect that I got that problem > after I applied March 8 update - > http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=514 - the one which > brought STEAM validation rejected problem along. > The problem is that after some point at processors load server FPS on these > servers drops dramatically and average ping on all servers sky-rocket to > 200-300-400. Packet ping from Windows command prompt at the same time > remains low, about 10-20ms. Source servers on the same machine are not > affected either. Most confusing part is that both processors load itself is > still far below 100 percent. > > First thing I though of was misconfiguration of game server settings so I > downloaded clean CS 1.6 server and started it. It suffered that same > problem. > > Then I started tweaking the process priorities - I gave all Source servers > below normal priority and gave high to CS 1.6 servers. This improved > situation a little but still not good enough. > > Then I managed to get some spare resources and moved CS 1.6 servers to > another machine which is also dual P4-3.2, 2GB RAM. > Along with my CS 1.6 servers it runs four Source servers with 80 busy slots > in total. And though both processors load was still hardly above 60 percent, > my CS 1.6 servers were suffering the same problem. > > Then I decided to divide processors between CS 1.6 and Source servers so I > used /affinity switch of start command to assign all CS 1.6 to one processor > and all Source servers to another. This dramatically improved the situation > for the most of time while the load of single processor assigned to CS > 1.6was within 30-40 percent but as soon as I got more slots filled - > my servers > are growing at the moment and more and more players are coming - and single > processor load reached certain point, my problem is back again. > > I'll be happy to hear any ideas on how to isolate a source of this problem. > I wonder if anyone else is suffering the same problem? > > Also I'd like to ask Alfred if it is possible to get a copy of pre March 8 > update binaries for HLDS to test whether my problems are really caused by > update? As far as I can see from update description it involves some > optimisation of HLDS engine and my guess is that some techniques used for > optimisation may cause the problem I have. > > Thanks to everyone who read to this line :) > > Best regards, > > Roman > -- > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
