I was running FreeBSD for awhile and we noticed alot of latency issues which turned out to be hardware related issues. The ram was bad, and the motherboard was cheap. We now have a 2.2ghz Athlon XP with 512mb of ram running on OpenBSD which IMHO is superior to FreeBSD in many ways. The server itself is handling two gameservers with 18slots per and we have people with 20-30ms pings all the time. All the way up to 150+ dependant on the connection they're using, but I personally prefer OpenBSD.
If anyone is interested you do need the redhat linux library emulators which you can find within the ports tree. -- www.vvclan.com Oscar N wrote: > On our dual pIII computer with linux we run two 18 player servers that > are full all the time. The ping has been around 70-80ms in-game lately > for most of our players. After I installed FreeBSD they suddenly had > around 50ms latency in-game !?! And that was even after I added HLGuard > which was not installed on linux... > So I've spend most of the day to install FreeBSD instead of linux on all > of our servers. I also like the way you can install software with > ports, I might even change to FreeBSD on my laptop :) > > Well, this is the end of the �ber high-tech test. The conclusion is to > switch to FreeBSD ;) > > /Oscar, www.bhood.nu > > Kevin J. Anderson wrote: > > >yeah, ive always thought it would be great if someone made a way to have > >bots join a remote server. there would be obvious cheat ramifications, but > >if there was a server side setting that would only allow them to join when > >say sv_cheats 1 was enabled, it would make for a great way to benchmark > >servers. I myself could realllly use this, as I help run a pretty large > >lanparty, and so far I have been extremely conservative in how many tourney > >games I run per dual system. (4 x 10player servers only) I know I could > >host more, but I want the tourney matches to be flawless, and so far > >everyone has had nothing but compliments as to the quality of the servers. > > > >kev > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of m0gely > >Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 12:47 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 2000, Latency test > > > > > >Imraan Sathar wrote: > > > > > >>The other thing to think about is running more than one server... > >>Something I forgot to add in my last post was that I have noticed that > >>as it stands FreeBSD seems to give higher ingame pings - even gamespy > >>pings when you run more than one server over its Windows 2000 > >>equivalent. > >> > >>Anyone else noticed this? > >> > >>Max > >> > >> > > > >This is why it would be helpful to have a benchmark script for > >hl/cs/etc. something that can be set up and measured in real world > >conditions, or best effort. like a server w/ not just one connection > >(player) but as many as you want. diff os's may stress differently > >under load. > > > >-- > >- m0gely > >http://quake2.telestream.com/ > >Q2 | Q3A | Counter-strike > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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
