It is definatly not accurate on FreeBSD. But that is probably a FreeBSD
issue rather than {hl,src}ds problem.

/Bjorn

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Saint K. wrote:

> Thanks all for the replies.
>
> We use CACTI to graph everything, so we don't require the scripts.
>
> I guess as some one mentions the best we can do is just test beforehand
> and see if there are result differences.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of f0rkz
> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 8:59 PM
> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] 'stats' cpu load
>
> There is a perl library that can run rcon on a server.
>
> http://www.gruntle.org/projects/hl2/Rcon-HL2-0.05.tar.gz
>
> I use this small script to get info from a server.
>
> =====================================================
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use Rcon::HL2;
>
> my $command = shift @ARGV; # bring in the title from argv
>
> my $rcon = Rcon::HL2->new(
>       hostname => "XX.XX.XX.XX",
>       password => "rconpasshere",
> );
>
> $rcon->run("$command");
> print $rcon->response();
> =====================================================
> For instance:
> $ perl rcon.pl stats
> 0CPU   In    Out   Uptime  Users   FPS    Players
>   0.00  0.00  0.00    3976     8  124.35       0
>
> This can be easily greped and parsed.
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Carl wrote:
>
> > you could check it yourself by using an rcon script.  Rcon into the
> > server, run the stats command, capture the output, and then compare it
> > to top.  I would suggest running top just before grabing the cpu load,
> > rconing in and grabbing cpuload, and then again afterwards.
> >
> >
> > Here is the C Source: http://www.asyserver.com/~cstrike/rcon.c
> >
> > Or if you prefer python:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/srcdspy/
> >
> >
> > Saint K. wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Does anyone know if the output value on the CPU load of a server is
> >> correctly reported when you type 'stats' ?
> >>
> >> We're currently creating graphs on the CPU load using 'top' as
> >> reference
> >> data, but as we also query the server for total player numbers and
> >> server FPS it would be more easy to also draw the CPU load from there
> >> instead of using top.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
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