If you know how to statically determine a dynamic process then please let us all know as Im sure that would be a great breakthrough in computer science.
Your basic solution of round robin would be unworkable as there are too many dynamic variants. You may be running your two servers quite happily but we are talking about many hundreds of servers across may hundreds of varying spec machines running multiple varying games that can change at any second triggered by an admins click. Its no surprise that one of the most difficult tasks in an OS is the scheduler and as such I dont believe reinventing the wheel to satisfy the temporary needs of one game is something we should be wasting resources on do you? Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dustin Tuft"
Just as a suggestion, you might try re-evaluating your process. It seems clear that the way your creating your servers does not allow flexable programing to control affinity, since your way out side of what I am sure Valve would consider standard deployment it might be faster for you to build a smarter dynamic process, possibly a program that trackes the diffrent servers and sets affinity based on the current CPU load. Then you could round robin the servers as they start up taking the CPU with the lowest load, you might even think about leaving CPU0 out of the mix so the windows OS doesn't have any complication or get over loaded durning peak game play. I have been running a dual CPU box from the beging of DOD and I have always found that setting the affinity greatly increases the game server's stablity even before they patched the server to set affinity by it's self. CPU's get bussy and when your busses are bussy with I/O a CPU can fall behind and there is nothing to correct that not even a better built timer. if you take in the whole system all the way to client Hard drives over the network, chances are your server CPU spend more time waiting to process data then any thing else.
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