You could have a separate install for each server or you could copy srcds.exe
to srcds-cpu1.exe, srcds-cpu2.exe, etc. and set the affinity for each with
imagecfg.exe.
I'm going to experiment more and see if adding -threads 1 to the command line
of a TF DS causes it to behave like a CSS DS. In looking at the code there is a
chance that it may and that would be a better solution for you than having to
mess with the affinity.
-Mike
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 server Affinity issue, Memory leak & Performance stats
Unfortunately this wouldn't help at all as all the servers would then be stuck
on a different CPU as there is only one srcds.exe
I know its a big ask but is there an ETA on fix for this as its crippling our
capacity to run TF2 servers :(
Regards
Steve
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From: "Mike Durand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:46 PM
Subject: RE: [hlds] TF2 server Affinity issue, Memory leak & Performance stats
Hi-
That's weird because I just did a test and imagecfg did properly force
srcds.exe to whatever CPU I chose. Here's my result:
D:\Dev\mdurand_main>imagecfg -a 0x2 C:\srcds\orangebox\srcds.exe
C:\srcds\orangebox\srcds.exe contains no configuration information
C:\srcds\orangebox\srcds.exe contains a Subsystem Version of 4.0
C:\srcds\orangebox\srcds.exe updated with the following configuration
information:
Process Affinity Mask: 00000002
Does anyone else get this failure when running imagecfg.exe?
Also, if you add the command line option -threads 1 the dedicated server won't
try to take advantage of the other threads on the
system so then each server will stay segregated on whatever core you started
them on.
C:\srcds\orangebox>srcds.exe -game tf -threads 1
-Mike
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The-/<iller"
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 server Affinity issue, Memory leak & Performance stats
DLinkOZ wrote:
Would a program such as imagecfg not get around the affinity issue? I've
used I for quite some time to get my other Valve servers (HL1/2) onto other
cores/processors when they wanted to all stick to the first they found.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:00 AM
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Subject: [hlds] TF2 server Affinity issue, Memory leak & Performance stats
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Affinity Issue
First off so people are aware the current server will only work on the first
core of any multi core machines. I'm assuming this is
due to the server threads having affinity set on them but this obviously
causes major issues on multi CPU / Core machines. I've
dropped Valve a mail about this, so I hope they can make a fix available
quickly.
In the mean time those who are running servers on SMP machines should
significantly reduce the number of servers on their machines
to ensure that the first core is not overloaded and hence seriously
impacting gameplay.
Memory leak
Seems the current server has a bit of a memory leak which can be seen below.
Team Fortress 2 - Performance @ 2.66Ghz Core2
As you can see memory ( the orange line ) is constantly rising as play
continues. This is not the same on a server which doesn't
have players so its either a play based leak or a player join / leave based
leak.
CPU Usage
With respect to performance TF2's current CPU usage is on the high side with
a 24 player TF2 using about the same as a 32 player
ET:QW server so it would be nice to see if some optimisation can be done to
bring this down an so keep the cost down.
Network performance
Network performance is good as usual with 105 player slots peaking @ 5Mbps
so each client using ~ 47Kbps.
Team Fortress 2 - Bandwidth peak = 105 Player slots
Regards
Steve
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imagecfg normally works with srcds but not the orangebox srcds, get this
error:
>imagecfg -a 0x2 srcds.exe
srcds.exe contains no configuration information
srcds.exe contains a Subsystem Version of 4.0
srcds.exe updated with the following configuration information:
Process Affinity Mask: 00000002
IMAGECFG: Unable to update configuration information in image.
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