-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Ff there's something you don't want to affect/compete with the game server (like mysql, httpd or something, anything none essential time wise, which aren't good things to run on a gaming server anyway, but some have no choice I guess), maybe positively nice -n 20 those processes instead. You can even nice them as default when they start. There's a number of preferred reasons for doing that imo, but I'll leave others to argue the toss over it :).
On 4/21/06, ics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My point exactly - BUT you CANT increase the priority to -1 BECAUSE > srcds will jump the CPU usage to 100% BECAUSE there is a BUG that does it. > Dont get away from the original subject. > > -ICS > > > Matt Judge wrote: > > > ics wrote: > > > >> Why would anyone want to renice it below 0 to 1-19 which would make it > >> run slower than the default process priority 0? > > > > > > FFS. When will people actually learn about the commands they are using? > > > > (re)nice does not make something run slower or faster. (re)nice > > changes the priority of the process giving it a higher or lower priority > > than other processes waiting to be run at the same time, whilst > > increasing or decreasing the time slice it is allowed to run in. So, if > > you are using other services on your games machine you should increase > > the priority (-1 or less)of the game process so that if MySQL and the > > Half-Life Daemon want to use the CPU at the same time, the Half-Life > > Daemon will run first because it has the higher priority. > > > > (re)nice'ing a program therefore makes a program run smoother, not > > faster. > > > > Matt. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
