I get the same performance Neph gets on Windows. I was going to say there were more windows servers but linux beats windows by 6 pages.
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=tf2&vars=os=linux&public=&pg=1 http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?vars=os=windows&game=tf2 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Nephyrin Zey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
