I sort of had that feeling too. I've been only running server with 100, 250 and 1000Hz kernels and those give 50, 120 and 500fps give or take. So far 1000Hz gives best performance under heavy load (lots happening in-game), rest just peak CPU to the roof time to time and cause glitching.
-ics Crazy Canucks kirjoitti: > Am I the only one that thinks the almost 100% cpu load might have > something to do with the almost 4000 fps the server appears to be > running at? > > Drek > > Gary Stanley wrote: > >> At 03:36 AM 8/28/2008, Nephyrin Zey wrote: >> >> >>> I've complained before about how srcds chugs massive amounts of CPU, but >>> now that I've enabled SourceTV it's gotten absolutely absurd. Here is my >>> server idling, while my monitoring system polls it once a minute for CPU >>> usage. The server is *empty*, with no bots, with just SourceTV on. >>> SourceTV is autorecording, but turning this off has a small effect. >>> >>> >> >> >>> CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players >>> 99.90 0.00 0.00 1556 14 3831.42 0 >>> rcon from "75.125.209.6:38438": command "stats" >>> CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players >>> 11.00 0.00 0.00 1557 14 3378.38 0 >>> rcon from "75.125.209.6:38442": command "stats" >>> CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players >>> 23.80 0.00 0.00 1558 14 3802.28 0 >>> rcon from "75.125.209.6:54402": command "stats" >>> CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players >>> 99.90 0.00 0.00 1559 14 1782.53 0 >>> rcon from "75.125.209.6:54406": command "stats" >>> CPU In Out Uptime Users FPS Players >>> 9.00 0.00 0.00 1560 14 673.40 0 >>> rcon from "75.125.209.6:54410": command "stats" >>> >>> A process monitor shows this server idling at 25-28% of the core it's >>> assigned to. >>> >>> I'm not doing any special boosting, but i am using a 2.6.26 kernel >>> (which has the new cpu sched, and such). I've tried 300hz and 1000hz, >>> tickless, preempt on off, and realtime kernels, and found that they all >>> have relatively minor effects on CPU usage. Turning off high precision >>> timers + turning kernel hz to 100, so the system cannot achieve higher >>> than 100fps, results in moderately less CPU usage, and a performance hit. >>> >>> So what am I going to do? The windows srcds has moderately better CPU >>> usage, but I run a quadcore linux system that also provides other >>> services, and can't easily switch. >>> >>> More worrying: the windows srcds 'unboosted' uses TINY (like <20% of a >>> core FULL) amounts of CPU. It gets 66fps, sure, but my servers dip as >>> low as 66fps when they're at 100% bloody CPU usage! >>> >>> Is this ever going to be looked at? Am I doing it wrong? >>> >>> - Neph >>> >>> >> Have you tried an older kernel? I don't see those issues (at all). >> However, I have plenty of hacks in place in kernel/time.c to make >> gettimeofday() return for speed, no accuracy (saves a couple mpy and >> divl cycles), and i don't use 2.6.26 series on my development stuff. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
