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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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

