really? I wasn't aware of that. dunno if he was using the stock 2.2 kernel or had upgraded to 2.4 or not... is it freebsd's ipstack, or did they emulate it? On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Jeremy Brooking wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
