This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Unfortunately, I think you'll have to try one thing at a time. Try the upgrading the equip first. In my very similiar experience (running on cable with a linksys) not only did it turn out that it was the router (after being in use for over a year - I'm no expert on the subject but I don't think a $40 router is made to handle thousands of connections a month for a prolonged period) but also my scsi drive which was failing to write sometimes when the swap was used - it was very old. Granted my spikes sometimes reached into the 1000's. I guess my point is that it could be any one of a number of things causing your spikes (including your pipe). In my case, I just bought an entire new set-up and upgraded to a USR router which is now reaching the end of it's life, I think - keeps locking up now and requiring reboots.
As a side note, does anyone have recomendations for a high quality home router, that's of better quality than the mediocre Linky's, Dlinks etc etc? I heard SOHO made a decent router with like a 50mhz processor and more than average ram. thx ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Pettit To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 6:13 PM Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] Routers and Things Seeing that you're on cable, I'd be tempted to blame that unless you have some kind of service level agreement with your ISP/Provider. Cable from what I've seen doesn't often give the full advertised speed due to congestion on your node etc. When my servers are full I only see them doing around 40-50Kbyte/sec in and out so I wouldn't really say you are maxing your bandwidth. Try turning off any other services on the server which could be causing CPU slowdowns. Try pingboost and max/min rates and max/min update rates. Cheers, Scott ___________________ Scott Pettit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+64) 0274 926 665 This e-mail message and accompanying data may contain information that is confidential and subject to privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message or data is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me immediately and delete all material pertaining to this e-mail. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of m0gely Sent: Sunday, 31 August 2003 9:35 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Routers and Things Pier Posthumus wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > Hi everyone, > I am currently running a 32 player cs server, my system specs are as follows > CPU: Athlon 1800+ (65% cpu usage on full server) > RAM: 512 Megs RAM (20% ram usage on full) > OS: Redhat 9 > Connection: Optimum online cable (its fast ~ 1.2 Mb/sec upstream, 5Mb sec down) > Linksys 4 port home router > HLDS 3.1.1.1d - adminmod, statsme > When the server reaches somewhere over 20 people, the pings begin to spike - mine, which is normally 20 on an empty server and like 50 with 16 people, jumps into the high 100's / low 200's when the server becomes full. My question is do you think this is a CPU problem, or more of a connection issue (i believe so), and if so, would ditching the linksys and just using linux iptables routing be a better way to reduce the latency? I have a T1 (1.54Mb), and I don't start seeing ping spikes until about 40 players. The T1 is used for other things too, so it's not really maxed (almost though). I would say you're getting close to your limits on CPU *and* bandwidth. It's easy to test though. Get a faster chips and see what happens. :) -- - 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
