Would changing to HPET help at all?


ServerAlex wrote:
> 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
>>
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