-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I have to agree entirely, it is about time that the linux build was looked into.
I mean twice now they have released a linux build that just would not run - do they even test the linux side? If so they would see how much worse it performs over windows, which is bad when you think how bad windows is with memory and all the GUI taking up memory as well. Richard Fennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There has been an increasing utilization difference between SRCDS Windows and SRCDS Linux. I think the reason is due to Valve using the MS Visual C++ to code the engine (but i'm not sure). Personally i think this should be one of Valve's top issues because currently it is seriously effecting the amount of servers being run and the price of the servers. Providers will have to continually put prices up as the SRCDS Linux performance slides. This needs to be addressed ASAP as the online community is suffering. As an example, I moved a customers servers from a Windows installation to a Linux installation, the hardware stayed the same. Windows the customer was able to run 1 x 40 man server and 1 x 100 tick 12 man server with 1 slot SrcTV. Linux the customer struggled to run 1 x 32 man server (standard Fedora 4/5 with 1000hz kernel). The CPU is a AMD 3700 and has 1gig of DDR Memory. An AMD64 3500 will now not run 2 x 100 tick servers on Linux. Not being able to run 2 match servers on a 3500 is a little bit wrong surely? There are pro's and con's for running on each platform with many hoster's preferring Linux as their core OS. Windows 2003 server is too expensive and to host services on windows XP is illegal. We run console only stripped down versions of Fedora and see performance gains in all other games over the windows platform. Valve can you let us know why the performance is so different on the different platforms and is there any chance of it being looked into? I for one would be very happy to help beta test if required. Thanks 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
