> I guess I missed this before.. But you're wanting to put 3+ active servers > on (Presumable a dual Opteron or even dual Opteron dual-cores) on your > server?
That is correct. > I use Dual Xeon's with Hyperthreading enabled. Granted I believe the > Opteron (Dual core or not) in general has an edge on Xeon's, but I can't > see you managing more than 4 active/full servers on one machine. I put 3 > games per machine, because in my experience the machines begin choking the > second you have a fifth heavily active process. By only running 3 game > servers, I leave room for any other processes that need CPU to use the > "fourth" thread/cpu. I know Hyperthreading doesn't cleanly equate to a > dual-core chip and its not really 4 CPUs, but thats what I've found. Dual opteron 246. I was running this. 1 - 20 Man cs 1.6 server - fairly full most of the time. 3 - 16 Man cs 1.6 servers - 2 - full alot of the time - 1 - not hardly full at all 1 - 20 Man Source server - never full 1 - 24 Man dod server - most of the time not full. but occassionally we would get full 24 people on 1 - 12 man private 1.6 server When the 24 man dod server would be full it would use regularly 30 percent of one of the servers. I had it locked to one cpu. The other servers I run on the other cpu. I never had any problems with them running with each other and that cpu might push up to 20% > Due to funding constraints I have to run my web/email servers on the same > machine as the games, and heavy activity from Apache/MySQL/Postfix was > causing in-game lag when I had four public servers on the machine. I moved > one of the game servers to another machine and that resolved all my > performance issues. I suspect that if I didn't have Apache/Etc running on > that machine I could put a fourth game server back. (I've never tested > this because on the second machine, that fourth "thread/cpu" is utilized > by several HLTVs, so that machine also has only three game servers) I also ran hltv recording on one of the machines 24x7 and iis 6.0 and sql server (low load) with no issues what so ever. > Maybe its because I use 2.4ghz Xeons and they aren't the fastest thing on > the block anymore. Just saying what I've observed, I don't profess to be > an expert on the subject. I hope I made sense though. The Opteron 246, from some sources, out preforms the xeon 3.2. So maybe that is how I made this all possible. But those days are long gone since I switched to Centos 4.1. I just want to know what other linux users are using. If they arent doing anythign close to what I was doing when I was running Windows then it is obviously clear to me that I will go back to Windows. I was running Windows Enterprise edition (MSDN Edition) if anyone thinks that that fact might make a difference. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
