On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Matt Donnon wrote: > > Don't take my word for it, run a benchmark and see for yourself. > > I have. Somethings go faster on HT, somethings dont, and occassional > things run like shite because HT confuses them into thinking they have two > real CPUs when they dont. > > With the introduction of dual-core (and in the case of intels extreme dual > core HT) there's been quite a lot of discussion around the hardware review > sites about how to properly benchmark such beasties. It makes for > interesting reading. > > Have you tried disabling HT for a day/hour yet? > an alternative experiment would be to drop the FPS from 500 to 333 for a > day also to see if that will allow more servers to be run. > Both of these experiments are also quite a bit cheaper than option 1; > which is more memory option 2; which is the biggest clockspeed xeons > around, or option 3; which is ditch the box and go opteron and see if that > helps.
Btw, He probably will never see all three servers running at 500 fps until he tweaks up the HZ-value. In FreeBSD 5.x its easy. you just bump it with kern.hz in the loader.conf. In linux you probably need to recompile the kernel. I still dont understand why he should go for 500 anyhow, anything over 100 should be enough. /Bjorn -- The devil is in my pants and he wants to say hello. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
