-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Durand
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [hlds] TF2 server Affinity issue, Memory leak &
Performance stats
Has anyone else tried to set the affinity with imagecfg.exe?
I can do it with no problems. -Mike -----Original
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
"[??R] The-/<iller" Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 4:02
PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2
server Affinity issue, Memory leak & Performance stats Mike
Durand wrote: > 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 > >
-----Original Message----- > > From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Steven Hartland > > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:23
PM > > To: [email protected] > > 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 > >
----- Original Message ----- > > 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 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
"[??R] The-/<iller" > > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
10:23 AM > > To: [email protected] > > 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. >> > > > > > > >
-----Original Message----- >> > > >> From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Steven Hartland >> > > >> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
11:00 AM >> > > >> To: [email protected] >> > > >>
Subject: [hlds] TF2 server Affinity issue, Memory leak &
Performance stats >> > > > > >> This is a multi-part message
in MIME format. >> > > >> -- >> > > >> 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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Doesnt help if I cant set the affinity using imagecfg
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