On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 11:09, Kevin J. Anderson wrote: > My observations about freebsd vs linux with hlds servers are this: > > a while ago, a friend of mine used to host a server at the company he > worked at sitting on a seriously fat pipe right off a major backbone. > it originally started out on linux, (slimmed down debian) and then one > day he decided to put on freebsd as a learning experience etc etc. the > pings dropped to that server by like 10-15 with in game ping times... > and I am not kidding. it was on a very superior pipe in the first > place though, so it was quite noticeable when your pings all of a sudden > drop from on average 45-50 to 30-35. It was actually uncanny, as the > day he brought it back up, people were at random like "wow, my ping is > way lower than normal, you upgrade teh server or something?" I attribute > most of this probably to freebsd's superior ipstack (one of the things > that every one else wants to get on par with freebsd) although I could > be wrong and it has nothing to do with that and something with the linux > emulation. (he used ver 7 btw)
I was under the impression 2.4 onwards kernels implimented a BSD tcp/ip stack? > > now, on the flip side of that, there is some deal with hl's timing and > freebsd's kernel that it limits the server frames per second to 50, so > pingboost, etc won't do jack for you except max it out at 50fps. Now > this is perfectly fine and dandy for an internet server, but really > doesn't cut it for a lan server (imho) > > just my 2 cents. > kev > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
