John, manually setting affinity is going to nothing much... I see the same thing on my linux box which is dual 3.0 xeons.... With a full 24 person, which it is right now im looking at 80%cpu and 4.1mem... I have HT on, that's the only diff... Yet When I have 30 people in my BF2 server I don't see any higher than 35% CPU... Pulling stats while its full the fps bumps between 120 and 30... I'm running CentOS 4.3. This is nothing new to what I have seen.
-----Original Message----- From: John Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 7:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [hlds] Still suffering linux related low fps high cpu -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Hi Chaps, A few weeks ago someone suggested compiling a low latency kernel, tickless for high fps which we have progressed and done. My box is a dual xeon 2.6ghz, HT is turned off and just the two cpu's are showing up. Its identical to my windows box in terms of hardware and setup. On my windows box I have 3 TF2 Servers and 1 TFC server running, when full task manager reports around 85% cpu usage and no fps related problems (although similar cpu loads being reported). Yet on the linux box it drops to 10fps, now with 14 players its fine 21:39:53 CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 45.00 35178.93 38394.59 210 4 493.83 14 Soon as it hits 18+ it goes off the boat... 21:31:36 CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 83.33 48139.13 79145.84 202 3 11.23 19 21:33:24 CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 83.75 54450.20 113019.84 203 3 13.33 22 If you look at top you see its hammering the server. top - 21:36:51 up 5:25, 1 user, load average: 1.36, 1.27, 1.22 Tasks: 60 total, 5 running, 55 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 48.5%us, 4.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 46.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3767424k total, 1097880k used, 2669544k free, 44068k buffers Swap: 1518100k total, 0k used, 1518100k free, 628592k cached PID PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 12268 25 0 230m 169m 22m R 73 4.6 59:40.89 srcds_i486 12154 15 0 98300 70m 6592 R 19 1.9 33:39.28 hlds_i686 11989 15 0 77908 57m 6248 R 9 1.6 25:21.40 hlds_i686 12323 15 0 207m 144m 22m S 6 3.9 9:17.43 srcds_i486 This server is running 1 x TF2 22 man server 1 x TF2 20 man server 1 x TFC 14 man server and 1 x TFC 20 man server. My windows box is running 1 x TFC 14 man server, 1 x TF2 20 man server, 1 x TF2 18 man serverx 1 x TF2 18 man server. As you can see the CPU load, at the moment the fps dropped to 11fps the box was hardly busy. At the same time this was my windows box.... 4:27025 21:44:20 CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 53.85 52241.09 128488.64 39 0 441.99 19 .4:27035 21:45:25 CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 48.46 53325.14 63532.80 3228 69 261.63 18 21:45:29 stats .4:27045 21:46:23 CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 55.86 48499.68 98046.57 4857 111 256.18 18 Short term im going to drop the linux servers down to 18 slots and up the Windows ones a bit to see what effect taht has but I have another windows server setup to 24 slots and it has no problems either... .129:27035 21:47:25 CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 43.42 62050.84 105045.49 34 1 510.61 24 All 3 machines are dual xeon 2.6ghz with HT disabled. AS these are my public boxes I know nothing else is running on the hardware at the same time and its not shared the only difference is linux/Windows. I heard people talking about manually assinging the afinity, does that make much of a difference? Or has anyone else found any other tricks? Much appreciated. John --------------------------------- For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this month. -- _______________________________________________ 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
