Its not the timing that wastes the CPU time. You can't lower it with that. 90% is absolutly normal for such a big server.
2009/3/7 The Universes <[email protected]>: > I'm running 4 32 man TF2 servers at 500fps (66 tick) and I'm wondering > if having kernel at 1000HZ (not tickless) with PREEMPT is necessary? > Is that putting unnecessary strain on my CPU (Q9300)? > > My second question is if you guys use HPET as your clocksource > $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource > tsc hpet acpi_pm jiffies > > $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource > tsc > > Would you recommend changing that to HPET? > > I'm basically trying to lower CPU usage so it doesnt shoot up to 90% > sometimes. > > Thanks, > 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

