I'd say that you're hitting your max on a computer that old. I'm amazed you can get to 16-18. My 32x servers take up 70-90% of a core on a q6600, so an old p3 wouldn't be able to come close
You might be able to do better on linux, the srcds performance has been getting much worse patch after patch, but moreso on linux, which gets no love despite running the majority of servers. - Neph On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Chris Lockfort (devnull) <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running a TF2 server on a 1133MHz Pentium-3 computer (2GB of ram, > 100mbit internet uplink) under Linux. Needless to say, it works fine > until we get 16-18 people, but then the CPU is at 100% and it starts > lagging to all hell. > So far the only things I have done to improve performance on this > server are: Putting in a cronjob to change the process priority (from > a pid file), and putting my srcds directories on a RAID0, which just > improves map-changing performance. > > Any tips or tricks to squeeze a few more players on my ancient P3? > I've heard that perhaps changing the server tick/fps could help a > little, but the internet seemed divided on the whole issue. > > --Chris > > _______________________________________________ > 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
