----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Ottalini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 3:57 PM Subject: [hlds] Server "stats" report interesting note (HT related) & server total bandwidth usage
> > Since I've never seen a factual report of actual server bandwidth usage, I > thought this might be interesting to everyone. > > I have three servers running on an Intel platform under Win Server2003, > Hyperthreading is enabled. > > When I ran "stats" on the servers when they were very busy, I saw two > servers reporting 75% CPU each and one server reporting 30% CPU - that adds > up to a total of 180% CPU utilization. The reported usage matches what was > being shown graphically in the server GUIs. > > Task Manager was reporting about 90% utilization during that time, so it > makes sense that the system is acting as if there were two processors > available. > > I did some testing earlier and there was very little performance difference > with HT enabled or disabled, although the server in general seemed slightly > more responsive with HT enabled. > > Bandwidth usage - The three servers have been running a month now and have > been very busy. > > There is a 32-player server, a 16 player server and a 14 player server so > max 62 players, but the max has been about 50 players on at the same time. > (I think the 32 player server is overloaded, probably needs to be limited to > no more then 20 players). > > The platform has been extremely stable with no crashes, the only time I've > had to reboot was to install OS updates. I run no addons on the two Source > servers and I only run metamod and stripper2 on the HLDS server. > > The game server and corresponding web server utilization are: > > Server box (3 game servers): > Bandwidth used: 388 GB of allowed 500GB/Month in 22 days, 30 day > total/month = 17.64GB/day = 529GB/month (I need to keep an eye on this > hehe) > > webhosting (fast http): > Bandwidth: 21.577.04 GB of allowed 2000.0 GB/month in 22 Days so about > 1GB/day (includes the server web page). > > qUiCkSiLvEr > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
