Not in my experience. As I said, having tried this on my servers I experience a small amount of lag every few minutes. However if the tf2 server is allowed to switch cores as and when it wants then I experience no lag.
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:32:34 -0800, The Universes <[email protected]> wrote: > Its better to set the CPU affinity to 1 core right? > So each server is affinity'ed to a separate core. > > [email protected] wrote: >> In my experience tf2 servers like to jump core every few minutes. If you >> don't let them do that, you get a small amount of lag every few minutes >> instead. I'm not sure what's going on with the Linux process scheduler >> there, but that's my experience. YMMV >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:hlds_linux- >>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Zuko >>> Sent: 05 March 2009 12:00 >>> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >>> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] TF2 CPU Usage on Q9300 >>> >>> I have same situation (24 players CPU usage about 80-95% Xeon 2.5GHz >>> (and >>> fps drop for 1-2sec from ~980 to ~60)) >>> >>> 2009/3/5 DontWannaName! <[email protected]> >>> >>>> I would say that those numbers sound about right, more or less. 90 >>> max. >>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:59 AM, The Universes >>> <[email protected] >>>>> wrote: >>>>> Is it normal for a 32 man TF2 (Badwater) server to take up 80-90% >>> of the >>>>> CPU on Q9300 (Quad 2.5ghz) when the server is full and theres a lot >>> of >>>>> action going on? >>>>> >>>>> I recompiled my kernel according to the Fragaholics wiki guide. >>>>> Kernel 2.6.28.7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 4 17:36:14 PST 2009 x86_64 >>> x86_64 >>>>> x86_64 GNU/Linux >>>>> >>>>> CPU scaling is disabled, irqbalance is disabled, server is not >>> running >>>>> unnecessary services nor web servers, databases, or anything else. >>> I >>>>> have 4 32man servers running on there, but only 1 is full and the >>> other >>>>> 3 have a total of 10 or less players combined. >>>>> >>>>> FPS max is set to 501 and sv_maxrate/cmdrate is 67. Did not change >>> tick >>>>> or systick via startup options. >>>>> >>>>> I used taskset to lock the process to single core >>>>> # taskset -p 3634 >>>>> pid 3634's current affinity mask: 4 >>>>> # taskset -p 3331 >>>>> pid 3331's current affinity mask: 1 >>>>> # taskset -p 3105 >>>>> pid 3105's current affinity mask: 2 >>>>> # taskset -p 3243 >>>>> pid 3243's current affinity mask: 8 >>>>> >>>>> Am I doing something wrong here, or do you guys have any >>> suggestions? >>>>> Thanks for any help/advice you can provide. >>>>> >>>>> - Dan >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Żuko >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
