In response to your comment about 12000 Ciscos being unreliable...IMHO, that is crazy...They are only unreliable if the admin doesn't know how to manage them efficiently. And I agree with you on the Junipers...Those are very nice. Just a matter of what you want in your network. But the Ciscos, IMHO, are very reliable when administered correctly.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nelson Marques Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Loss/Choke in FreeBSD servers For as much as I can say, Catalysts are a rather obnoxious choice. Try the Baystack Series from Nortel. As for high performance routers, dropped the unreliable Cisco's 7100/12000 and started investing in Juniper's, now, those really rock! nmarques Andy Shinn wrote: > Right now there are 2 hlds servers on the machine. During time of > testing both were empty. And even with both full. The loss/choke still > seem to be about the same (around 1-6). > > The switch is a Cisco 2900 series. Not sure exact model, it's a > special layer 3 model. > > The network card is an integrated intel card. Not sure which model. > Come with the Supermicro 6013a-t chassis. > > Marcos Dias wrote: > >> How many servers are there on each machine ? >> bandwidth ? >> >> What kind of switch are you using ? >> >> What network card are you using ? >> >> []'s >> >> Marcos Dias >> www.netrangers.com.br >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "kama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 5:47 AM >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Loss/Choke in FreeBSD servers >> >> >> >> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
