I've complained before about how srcds chugs massive amounts of CPU, but now that I've enabled SourceTV it's gotten absolutely absurd. Here is my server idling, while my monitoring system polls it once a minute for CPU usage. The server is *empty*, with no bots, with just SourceTV on. SourceTV is autorecording, but turning this off has a small effect.
CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 99.90 0.00 0.00 1556 14 3831.42 0 rcon from "75.125.209.6:38438": command "stats" CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 11.00 0.00 0.00 1557 14 3378.38 0 rcon from "75.125.209.6:38442": command "stats" CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 23.80 0.00 0.00 1558 14 3802.28 0 rcon from "75.125.209.6:54402": command "stats" CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 99.90 0.00 0.00 1559 14 1782.53 0 rcon from "75.125.209.6:54406": command "stats" CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 9.00 0.00 0.00 1560 14 673.40 0 rcon from "75.125.209.6:54410": command "stats" A process monitor shows this server idling at 25-28% of the core it's assigned to. I'm not doing any special boosting, but i am using a 2.6.26 kernel (which has the new cpu sched, and such). I've tried 300hz and 1000hz, tickless, preempt on off, and realtime kernels, and found that they all have relatively minor effects on CPU usage. Turning off high precision timers + turning kernel hz to 100, so the system cannot achieve higher than 100fps, results in moderately less CPU usage, and a performance hit. So what am I going to do? The windows srcds has moderately better CPU usage, but I run a quadcore linux system that also provides other services, and can't easily switch. More worrying: the windows srcds 'unboosted' uses TINY (like <20% of a core FULL) amounts of CPU. It gets 66fps, sure, but my servers dip as low as 66fps when they're at 100% bloody CPU usage! Is this ever going to be looked at? Am I doing it wrong? - Neph _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
