Nice to hear. However, we had verified the problem already mentioned before here on the mailinglist. We had on a only4srcds-server this issue and only thing we did change was moving from athlonmp (32bit) to opteron (64bit) architecture AND increasing memory from 1.5gb to 2gb. Although memory was used only 400mb and cputime was peak10% every ~15minutes the source process began to allocate 100% cputime - locking the whole src process while the icmp ping was stable. We did check every possible on our side (kernel, cronjobs, potential dos/ddos, potential attacks by source clients) before searching steampowered forum and this mailinglist. Even on server without ANY plugins we could observe this sourceds attitude.
The solution was a posting on this mailinglist where someone reported problems with pingboost on amd64bit machines. We disabled pingboost and suddenly the cpuconsumption of srcds was gone! Since srcds is a product of valve (so is option pingboost), its their fault. I still cannot understand why they count on recent glibc versions and even SSE support (see other posts here n mailinglist) but does not solve this - meanwhile old - issue on amd64 plattforms. What we can verify. Its not a problem of distro - we checked fedora suse and debian. Its not a problem of kernel 2.6.x - we checked several recent kernel versions without any change (we could not check 2.4 since its outdated for recent distros). Its not a problem of configuration (we used standard configs, old and experienced configurations, modified version which should decrease cpu/mem consumption (lower tickrate, forcing rates, ....). we had ONLY success by disabling pingboost completely. Simon -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Richard Fennell Gesendet: Montag, 19. Juni 2006 13:05 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [hlds_linux] Fedora 5 Issues (Richard Fennell) DoubleDoom wrote: > We are using FC5 64bit successfully with CS1.6. This is with intel xeons > running the 32 bit version of hlds (obviously). No problems whatsoever and > running smoother with higher server fps and better bullet reg than any > version of FC before now. > > Not even the slightest problem and no cpu lock ups. There was some issues > with pingboost settings and some metamod plugins in the past (amx/amxx). I > suggest you try it without any pingboost, if you are using that (we run > pingboost 3 with no problems). > > DD > Cheers all that replied. Found the problem was a library i had installed to allow another program i was running on the box to work. I'll email Alfred and let him know there is a possible issue with these libraries on the same box. (Although it may not be valves problem / fault). Cheers Richy _______________________________________________ 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
