-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I may have actually been able to cure this on my server o.O Yesterday I was doing lots of tweaks that I could find, and afterwards, the time I spent definitely showed. The server did not have any hitches, lower pings, no tick drops; it was absolutely splendid :) And this was during a 10man 100tick scrim (two times). While it may not prove the same for you, I thought that I'd share my experiences with you guys in hopes that it can help you.
First off, I am running CentOS 5 with a custom-compiled 2.6.22 kernel (dynamic/tickless, 1000hz (though it doesn't really matter with a tickless kernel), HPET, CFQ, and low-latency patch). You can get the low latency patch here: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ I think this may have been the trick that actually did it, but I did a lot yesterday so I can't be sure. If you apply it, make sure that you have the "Complete Preemption" mode selected under "Processor types and features". I added some optimization flags while compiling the kernel, but I'm not sure how much it will do (I'm not *that* big on development): CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -ffast-math" I added the following entries to /etc/sysctl.conf (easiest to do :P): net.core.rmem_max = 16777216 net.core.wmem_max = 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 16777216 I also disabled access times (for both files and folders) on my ext3 root partition. /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 1 Srcds is running with nice of -10, but I'm not sure how much that really affects it. That's all that I can remember off the top of my head, but it has definitely made an improvement for me. If you want, I can post up my kernel .config. Hope it helps! :) Dan -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
