Note sure why you get so much CPU usage. Linux srcds, TF2, SourceTV enabled, no player connected Server running Debian 4.0 64bit, with CPU Core2Duo @2.33GHz and 4GB Ram
stats CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 4.00 0.00 0.00 0 1 243.37 0 stats CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 4.75 0.00 0.00 0 1 237.36 0 stats CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players 3.80 0.00 0.00 1 1 242.78 0 The strange thing is: why this difference in FPS? Cold On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Nephyrin Zey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds

