Ah, I missed that.  Nothing is ever as simple as it seems...

Drek

Nephyrin Zey wrote:
> If you read my previous email, that was because of a plugin i had
> running that i then removed and provided a snapshot without it, but
> with the same problem.
>
> I can't even get consistant 100FPS with 32 people in a SourceTV
> server, on a 2.4GHz Xeon. That's the issue.
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:29 AM, ics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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