I was waiting for someone to actually talk about how load average works.. Thank you! You're the first person to actually mention that load average is the "length of the process queue on the system". Now, if anyone looks into this further they will immediately find that load average for one system will not mean the same for another..
For example http://s02.legionofboom.org/monitorix/imgs/cpu1.week.png shows my system at LA's hitting well over 10 (during busy times) and I nor anyone else on my servers have experienced lag. (thats running with a -fork 20 btw) So my point is.. load average is only a possible indicator of problems and should not be taken as the "end all" for performance monitoring. On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 10:50 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:15:46 -0600 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] hlds_linux Digest, Vol 9, Issue 199 > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Keep in mind that load average is an expression of queue depth. Some > types > of servers can handle deep queues with no visible impact shown to the > end > user. Gameservers are not that kind of animal. They require > constant, > nearly instantaneous updates in both directions in order to have truly > smooth, seamless play. In the past, any time I saw load average above > one I > saw an impact of some sort. > > A load average above 3 seems to manifest itself in L4D servers in some > unpredictable ways that can generally be ignored by most players. > > If you don't want to keep sending jarring notes that throw your > players off, > you really want to see your load average below 2. This should be true > regardless of the number of CPUs that you have in your box. Thus, my > comment in an earlier email about converting one of my public servers > back > over to Steam group only. Having 2 dedicated to just the Steam group > will > still let people fill up the public servers first and use the two > semi-private ones as relief. > > > [snip] > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
