It eats CPU as hell and should give your players lower ping and a more distinct feeling... To be more advanced, someone wrote this a while ago:
All the pingboot modes attempt to reduce the latency caused by the server. The default implementation adds around 20msec to each players ping (under linux). Mode "1" reduces this by using a different wait method (a select() call). This method reduces the latency to 10msec. Mode "2" uses a similar but slightly different method (and alarm() type call). Again, the result it 10msec worth of latency being added. NOTE that this method has the potential to hang a server in certain (terminal) situations. If anyone has used this mode recently (not the first test we did!) and it hangs please speak up :) Mode "3" minimises the latency to the minimum possible level by processing a frame EVERY time a packet arrives. This causes the lowest possible latency, but can also cause extreme CPU usages (it does a complete frame for every packet, with each player sending lots of packets per second and 30 players this adds up to insane amounts of frames). Use this mode at your own risk, it will consume all available CPU, don't complain that cstrike uses too much CPU if you use this mode :-) In a future release this mode will be tweaked to let the admin balance latencies agains CPU usage (by processing a frame every N packets). There is also an external modules called "pingbooster" by UDPSoft (or is it UDPSoftware?). They implement something like mode "3". As this is an external module, and was built for an older version of HL (1108) it may not work properly any longer, and future releases may (accidently) break it. Omer Cohen wrote: >On that note can you pelase tell me what pigboost 1 and 2 does ??? > >Regards, > Omer Cohen >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Oscar N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:14 AM >Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] New Security Modules > > > > >>I was more thinking of something like this: >> >>Secure 1/2/3 (1=off, 2=on kick only, 3=on, kick and ban) [Default 3] >>Global Reporting on/off (Secure has to been above 1 to get this to work) >>[Default on aka 1] >>Global Ban list included on/off [Default on aka 1] >> >>Doesn't sound to complicated. And I can't think of many serious server >>admins out there who can't change a value from 0 to 1 or 2... But hey, >>you can always use the default values if you're not that good :P >> >>/Oscar >> >> >>Elminst wrote: >> >> >> >>>So it would seem the wanted options are; >>>1. non secure >>>2. secure with >>> a. option to kick only, no ban >>> b. option to kick and ban, with >>> 1. option to report to global >>> 2. option to use global list. >>> >>>That about cover it? Sounds like it's just getting more complicated... >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Oscar N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:14 AM >>>Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] New Security Modules >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hmm, about 100 new mails from only this list. I should have know better >>>>than to say some linux dist is better then someone else. But, who can >>>>refuse, muahahaha.... The simple answer is that no linux dist is >>>>better/more secure than someone else, the only thing that matters is the >>>>one who press the buttons... >>>> >>>>Anyway, to the point... I didn't actually read all the mails so I'm >>>>sorry if someone allready have came up with this idea. >>>>As not everyone seem to agree with each other about the future global >>>>ban list, why not make it an option as with everything else...? >>>>Then the admins who want to include all bans from the global list can do >>>>so, and they who don't want to include it can skip it and still run a >>>>secure server who protects against cheaters... >>>> >>>>And about reporting caught cheaters to the global list, hmm... Don't >>>>know really, but I'm sure there can be an option as well... >>>> >>>>/Oscar, www.bhood.nu >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
