My suggestion would be get rid of that awful processor and replace it with an athlon x2 or similar. Simply because sempron's are half assed upgrades of the good ol' duron and they suck even at normal windows desktop tasks. You may be able to get away with an optimized kernel and trimming out the unneeded/unwanted background tasks (things like the X server) but TBH i wouldn't bother. just go spend some money on hardware upgrades.
M3PH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Stanley Sent: 22 July 2009 20:32 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list; Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] OP4 cpu usage question At 03:15 PM 7/22/2009, Ook wrote: > > That's not a CPU scheduler, that's an I/O scheduler. Deadline is > > probably the best choice for everyone. There's no magic bullet to > > reduce CPU usage as the binaries aren't really > > optimized for linux. > > > > -M > > > >35% cpu at idle? Compared to 1% on Winbloze? That goes beyond simply not >being optimized for linux...I guess I'll wait and see how it performs with >12+ players. I would hate to have to go back to Windows simply because of >this. > Run a profiler on it to see what it's doing. If you don't need 1000hz, remove it from the kernel. I'm sorry to say but there are others on this list who know for sure that the binaries just aren't as optimized as their windows counterparts. -M _______________________________________________ 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
