On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Andy Shinn wrote: > Wondering if any FreeBSD HLDS users can help me out. > > First of all. I'm wondering if FreeBSD was a good choice for HLDS > servers. I mainly went with FreeBSD because all my other machines run > FreeBSD and HLDS does seem to run well on it. Recently I built a new > machine (dual 2.8ghz xeon, 1gb ram) to run some more game servers on. I > get about 1-4 loss on them at any time, rarely going to 0. I have set > the kern.hz="1000", tried changing rates and such. No luck. > > CPU usage was never over 30% and other HLDS servers on the same switch > on the net have 0 loss all the time. > > Wondering if there are any other tweaks I should look at or something > else to monitor. > > Otherwise I'm very happy with the FreeBSD performance in HLDS. Though I > can't even feel the 1 - 4 loss it bothers me that it is there =\
I use FreeBSD and HLDS. And I am seeing losses too, but only 1-4 every 3-10 minutes. The server spec are simular, dual xeon 2.4 GHz, HT enabled, 1 gig ram. I never thought it could be due to freebsd, perhaps you are right, perhaps you are wrong. I always thought it was the network, and when i upgraded the IOS on the switches a lot of the problems I hade before disappeared. The choke I am seeing is only at a restart of a map, when everyone buys... > Next on my list of things to try was to disable HT. I have read that HT > doesn't help and can actually be worse since HLDS isn't multi threaded. > Is this true? I could not see why it will run better with HT disabled. FreeBSD sees them as 4 seperate CPU's. Perhaps there is some overhead that causes them to perform slightly more poorly. The benefit is that when it spins off and uses 99% of cpu it will not affect the other servers. /Bjorn -- I wish my girlfriend understood ... _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
