-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] HLDS has a known issue where all HLDS processes bind themselves to CPU-0
You need a program that can manually assign HLDS processes to physical cores AFTER they have been launched. Something to do with a VAC fix for HLDS. Well at least I think this is the problem you are describing. On 5/14/06, Scott Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a server it's a dual proc AMD system. I have a weird problem. I > do > not know what is causing it... Obviously that is why I am here.. Just > curious if anyone else has seen this and has any ideas what might be going > on. > > If I connect to the Windows Server with Remote Desktop it all is fine. As > soon as I disconnect the pings start to rise on the hlds servers. The > "System" process pegs one of the CPUs. All of the servers I have bound to > the main CPU start to ping out and lag. When I connect back to the > Windows > Server with Remote Desktop eventually the System process goes back to > normal. I have disabled all non-essential services I believe. It is > weird > that this just happens right as I disconnect from remote desktop. I was > thinking maybe it was some type of back door or something on the server. > However, I see no additional bandwidth usage at that time. Everything > network wise looks reasonable. I don't know how to start trying to find > out > what specific process that is being ran by the "System" process as I know > it > does a lot of work on behalf of the services. This is why I went through > and disabled non-essential services. I wish I could disable more but as > the > server is remote I don't want to accidently cut myself off from being able > to use remote desktop. > > This appears to happen each night around 1am. But I cannot verify this as > I > normally am not up this late playing on the server. It eventually passes > from what I am told and then it goes back to normal. My scheduled tasks > are > set to run at around 5am so it is not some scheduled process causing the > problems. > > Does anyone have any idea? I know this really is not a hlds issue so > please > forgive me. But I just though you guys would have an idea of what might > be > going on. > > I already ran spybot search and destroy and adaware on the server. I am > at > a loss to try to figure out what is going on. Any help would be > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
