My must say I haven't tried SRC itself but have tried others and
they lag badly due, which I assume is due to use of comparison
in timestamps and / or inaccurate sleep periods.
With regards trading apps do they really require events to happen
with ms accuracy? I cant picture a scenario for FD which would cause
an issue if it happened +-a few ms.
In contrast I would personally be very surprised if there was any
game server that wouldn't see at least some detrimental effect from
having inaccurate timing. You would only have to be doing any sort
of time difference calculations in a simulation for an clock
frequency variations / sleep variations to show noticeable issues.
Its very similar to how game servers present issues when run on
hardware with any sort of power saving, that makes use of variable
clock frequencies, enabled.
Would be great if some from Valve could comment on the potential
issues for timestamps going backwards or inaccurate sleep intervals
on a regular basis would be for HLDS / SRC based games?
Regards
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Weckstrom" <k...@weckstrom.com>
To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list"
<hlds@list.valvesoftware.com>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [hlds] VMware Advise
> I'm well aware of the doc. I had to know it backwards and forwards for the
> VCDX.
>
> Trading apps care because of timed trade executions that have to happen at
> very specific times/intervals or when triggered by a
> market event.
>
> What you're talking about Batch processing. That's not what capital markets
> trading apps do.
>
> HLDS/SRCDS is not a time sensitive app, meaning it does not require
> sub-second accuracy (much less single-digit ms accuracy),
> which makes it an excellent candidate for virtualization. You won't see any
> problems with HLDS/SRCDS under ESX/ESXI. Apparent
> time is more than enough for the app since the app seems to only care about
> time for one thing. Timestamps on logs :)
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