As I understand it there are several problems with running HLDS on a openmosx cluster. The app isn't multithreaded (AFAIK) so you are limited to farming the process out to the best suited or most free slave in the cluster. Now this can still be quite handy. Have 1 server with all the administration on it that farms the processes out to its children.
HOWEVER Make sure you have some sort off QOS on your network. As your processes are farmed out to the children they consume huge amounts of bandwidth (Don't forget you are sending the whole process and the ram it is loaded into, possibly into a GIG of data), straining your network and causing huge lagg spikes. The main server is still the main what all of the clients are connected to and will need a very low latency connection to the children. That's if I understand it correctly Some people have got it working well, I think it was Americas army that runs on a big cluster. Regards Richy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 November 2004 02:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlds_linux] Running an HL Server on Openmosix Cluster Hello, I am more than half way through with a personal project of setting up an openmosix cluster of my older computers. I do have a p4 in here that I previously used as a CS server that is the prime host, and really would just like to know if anyone has ever run an hlds server in a cluster, and what kind of performance does it give compared to a standard server? _______________________________________________ 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
