I don't really trust your test results that much but HLDS does run great on the kernel 2.2.x series.
What would be cool is if you could do some testing using the same distribution running 2.4.x kernels compiled on different platforms with different optimizations. Like i386 vs AMD Athlon-XP kernel. You could also do different source tree's as well, besides the vanilla kernel. Actually, maybe you can do this test for me. Pit the vanilla linux kernel vs this patch set: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ Also, if you need help, I can write a script for you that will graph number of players, network traffic, the current map, and the processes cpu utilization. Then you can have visual results to compare. At some point you should be able to deduce the best platform with the best kernel to run hlds. Anyway, I should be working on finishing up the HLBook beta 2 but I'd take a break to pump that script out. Also, I don't know if this is even legal or not but I've made a Linux distro based on the Gentoo Live CD that boots directly into a perl based system where you enter some settings and it spawns either a cstrike, dod, tfc, or dmc server. It auto detects your LAN card. You supply the mod type, ip, port and choose from one of the pre packaged config files to execute but the config files can be edited as well. All the config files are copied into a tmpfs and then sym linked into the mods directory so you can edit them. Its basically for LAN parties and stuff. I don't know if I can distribute it though with Valves stuff on there but it would be cool. Would anyone be interested in something like this though? Matt On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 16:04, Andy Hodges wrote: > They were tested on several.. > > 1.7 GHZ Celeron / 512mb > 1.13 GHZ (non-Celeron) / 512mb > 850 MHZ / 512mb > > Just test it yourself. Doesn't take but 2 minutes to run the install and > another 5 minutes to setup your game. > > -Andy -- Matt http://www.playway.net ---- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
