You should be able to enable it at any time. You can test if it's working by executing the "spike" command, which just forces the server frame rate to stall for a second or so.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Essay Tew Phaun Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 2:16 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] [hlds_linux] TF2 server performance spikes Can these both be enabled at any point during the server running or must they be specified at startup? I've enabled both and seen 2 servers already dip below and nothing has been generated. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Fletcher Dunn <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: That trace doesn't appear to be produced as a result of vprof_dump_spikes. That is a profile of average performance over about an hour's worth of uptime. 314391 frames sampled for 4718.71 seconds Average 66.63 fps, 15.01 ms per frame Peak 3131.67 ms frame 99 pct of time accounted for When spike mode is active, it will clear the profile data each frame, and then dump it if the frame time exceeds some threshold. (You actually specify the reciprocal of the threshold, in hz.) From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Kyle Sanderson Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 1:59 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] [hlds_linux] TF2 server performance spikes Did you update? for the past hour or so I've been getting complaints about spikes, I'm thinking it's something non-threaded using the Steam API. I noticed Avatars have been working since the change, but I'm just pulling at straws now. vprof hasn't rendered anything useful. Here's a vprof dump after a while (I wrote something to script most of the captures, my goodness vprof takes a long time to print). http://fpaste.org/11930/13684786/ Thanks, Kyle. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Essay Tew Phaun <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Oh my god Valve, the spikes are 10x worse now, what have you done lol. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Bjorn Wielens <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I will attempt to get a few vprof dumps and post them here. ________________________________ From: Fletcher Dunn <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 2:09:14 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] [hlds_linux] TF2 server performance spikes Has anybody used vprof spike mode? This sort of problem is pretty much exactly what it was designed to investigate. E.g. vprof_on vprof_dump_spikes 20 // dump a vprof report if frame rate drops below 20 If the problem is caused by network traffic, using the -netspike command line argument can also be used to dig deeper into exactly what entity data is being sent. If you have a report and you don't know how to interpret it, you can email it to me or post it here, I'm sure there are some people who can help analyze it. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Bjorn Wielens Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 9:42 AM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] [hlds] TF2 server performance spikes Correct, I was one of the folks discussing this in the last round of messages and we run on Linux. Since my last message about having disabled replays I still get occasional hiccups in a full server, but nowhere near as bad as before, owing to the lack of replay overhead. I'd be happy to run diagnostics if they were available for Linux, but alas that's not the case. ________________________________ From: Alex Kowald <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 1:16:04 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 server performance spikes You are only accepting traces for windows servers correct? Some of the people that have complained are running linux. I have the issue myself on two independent servers. We get this new game studder after upgrading, leaving everything else the same. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Fletcher Dunn <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I do have a theory about the cause of the CPU spikes. I'll release a build with the next mandatory update (which will probably be this afternoon) that I think could address the problem. But since we are not reproducing the problem here, this is just a theory, not disciplined engineering. > >In order to conduct disciplined engineering, we need data from those who are >able to reproduce it. Judging by the amount of discussion this problem has >generated and the relatively small amount of effort that is required in order >to get the data to us, I'm really surprised we haven't received more traces. > >I have given out vtrace keys to every person who has asked for one. So far we >have received traces from exactly two (2) server operators. One server >operator had processor affinities set, the other was running a high number of >instances per core, such that the average CPU utilization was high and there >was no headroom for more than one process to spike. > > >_______________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please >visit: >https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
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