I completely agree. Due to the nature of the hlds and srcds platforms, you are unlikely to see many benefits with HT technology. Process management is always going to be a big task for a box like that, and the only real path to recovery is a bigger cache, faster bus and more ram.
HT is much more useful on the client where one of the virtual processors can be allocated to deal with driver level functionality and the other to deal with the steam and hl2 processes. The advantage of locking one or another to any particular virtual processor is minimal and you run the risk of process starvation when you play with process management (although that would still be hard to achieve). Trust in your kernels process and processor management - if you're concerned about comments in your kernel code like "//should this go here?" then I'd recommend a new OS. On the other hand if you're happy with that, then feel free to continue. On 8/4/05, Stan Bubrouski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to mention that people have all kinds of HZ settings, plugins, > etc... that have all kinds of affects on the system, utilization and > how those stats are reported. In linux it can be especially hard to > compare systems unless they are running similarly configured kernels > with the same VERSION_MINOR at least... > > -sb > > On 8/4/05, Ian mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally I find running multiple servers of anything runs better on > > HT than none HT, sometimes if running only one process that really > > uses the cpu you may be better off with none HT. You get a lot of > > bogus info from people who don't understand how HT and cpu usage is > > shown, so personally I'd say read up on it, and do testing yourself > > with your own benchmarks (looking at things like server fps etc rather > > than cpu usage) and go with what feels best on your own setup. > > > > On 8/4/05, Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > there is no hard-proof disabling HT is any better than using it.. pure > > > speculation. > > > what might seem to run better for one might not for another. > > > > > > Scott Tuttle wrote: > > > > > > >I thought it was recommended you disable HT if you were maining running > > > >hl > > > >servers? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > > > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlds_linux- > > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Donnon > > > >>Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:10 AM > > > >>To: [email protected] > > > >>Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] help how do i get the servers in linux to use > > > >>both cpus > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>>>im runnig a p4 3.2 ht in top i see 2 cpu's only one is > > > >>>>>doing the work ! so how can i force it to use cpu 1 and 0 > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>HT doens NOT equal two CPU's. Think of it more as CPU > > > >>>>resources A and B. HLDS likes lots of A and bugger all of > > > >>>>B, so forcing it to use B is probably a poor idea. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>Its not up to hlds... Its how the OS, or rather the SMP code in the > > > >>>kernel, is managing to use the two virtual cpu's. Apperently there is > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>some > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>tools in some distributions where you can set a process to a certain > > > >>>virtual cpu. And sometimes its not that specify a cpu for a process. > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>Dunno > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>which dists that have those tools. > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>and on a proper SMP machine doing this might have some small benefit. > > > >>HT is not SMP, he does NOT have two CPU's and he cannot run twice as > > > >>many > > > >>HLDS processes. > > > >>HT is a good way of offloading other system processes, and confusing > > > >>newbs > > > >>into thinking their box is only at half the utilization it actually is. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>_______________________________________________ > > > >>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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.9/62 - Release Date: 8/2/2005 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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
