I run 375-400 people on a 2 x Quad Xeon's 2.66. If I turned on his res timer I would be in the 200 range I have done a lot of testing on this when I first setup. On and off you can't tell in game but the CPU hit is insane!
-----Original Message----- From: Nephyrin Zey [mailto:nephy...@doublezen.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:18 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Cc: Mike Stiehm Subject: Re: [hlds] Changes in Dedicated Server Capacity After Updates I haven't extensively tested non-hires kernels or stable lower FPS configurations, but I wouldn't think so; It allows you to set dynamic tic and very low kernel resolution without getting wildly inaccurate sleeps. Without hi res timers, sleep can only wakeup as fast as the kernel resolution, meaning you'd need 1000hz to get the high fps everyone craves so much. If you hook the sleep() events on the main loop and make the engine sleep more/longer, you dont get much CPU savings for the performance hit. (see: windows boosted vs non-boosted). You're just generating 1000hz interupts when they're not necessary, rather than simply sleeping as desired and waking up as desired, generally using tsc or hpet. I'll add it to my experimentation list though On 01/27/2010 03:24 PM, Mike Stiehm wrote: > We don't use a high res timer no need for it. > > Just a waste of CPU power if you ask me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Mike O'Laughlen > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 5:05 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] Changes in Dedicated Server Capacity After Updates > > Wouldn't high res timers increase CPU utilization? > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mike Stiehm<mikesti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> No changes that I can see we handle 375+ and seems to be just as it always >> was. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com >> [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Terry Robinson >> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:32 PM >> To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com >> Subject: [hlds] Changes in Dedicated Server Capacity After Updates >> >> Through September our dedicated server seemed capable of handling 150+ >> people TF2 participants without pegging the processor but after the WAR >> update, 90 people seems to put the processor at 95+% uage. Have recent >> updates causes changes in anyone else's server resource consumption? Are >> there optimizations available that don't exist out of the box to maintain >> server capacity? >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
