FreeBSD is generally some 10-15 % slower for hlds use in my experience. Also please don�t go so hard at the guy for making a valid point just because you don�t care to think it through. Although it is true that the volume for the logfiles is very low the IO usage is quite high. Please consider that every time _anything_ happens on either server the harddrive needs to reposition it's heads and write it. In my experience the buffering of logs is not really that efficient in hlds. Consider further that while doing this an interrupt has been sent pausing everything else for a few cycles (this is not entirely true, as the chipset and processor of course have optimizations). Depending on the level of caching etc on the harddrive and so on, the delay of such IO operations can be noticeable.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of m0gely Sent: 14. oktober 2004 18:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Dual CPU Usage? Tim Driggers wrote: > - OS: Try something other than FBSD. I see better performance running > my servers natively on linux, instead of running them through an > emulator on fbsd. It's not emulation. Do your research. And in documented cases FreeBSD has run some Linux apps faster than Linux could. Game servers even. > - Logs/MapChanges/etc: writing a ton of logs to the local drive is > another slow point (goes back to number 1 about the speed and > stability of your hdd). I currently write my logs to a SAN to take > load off the local disk. Map changes will introduce lag unless you > have a very fast drive. This is crap. If you have 4 servers running w/ lots of slots open on one machine with log detail set to 3, you might get 4M of logs written total in about 1/2 hour? If your disk can't handle that then get something made in the last 10 years. -- - 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
