I'm running Intel Core 2 Quad /Q9550/ 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache 1333MHz Front side Bus speed, which should be pretty close to a E5450, though maybe not quite. Yet I can't run anything close to 32 active servers on this. 4-5 tops. Not sure why, just saying.
Eric Riemers wrote: > True, but 320/5/4 is still 16 servers.. and i stop at 5, so basicly i can > have 4 in vs mode (32 players) and thats my max. > > Just talking out loud, but i presume this is normal when they are active > which is almost all the time. (i have people on it at the strangest times) > but i have to say i have a lot of custom content (vpk files) on there, > which attracts a lot of people too. > > Dont know if those maps have impact on cpu, death aboard is i think around > 550mb.. > > O well, maybe time for a upgrade too :) > > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:33:55 +0800, Ben Jensz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> E5450 != 3Ghz classic Xeons. >> >> A single core (of which there are 4) on an E5450 is more powerful than a >> > > >> 3Ghz Xeon CPU. >> >> >> >> Eric Riemers wrote: >> >>> I have a dual xeon 3ghz, i had 6 forks running on it, but with 5x 8 >>> people >>> in versus mode people >>> started to complain and i indeed could see that the cpu's where maxed >>> out. >>> >>> Running on linux debian, but if i hear these story's then it should be >>> able to do more no? >>> >>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:54:53 +0800, Ben Jensz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> The night that Nick is referring to was when the Survival pack was >>>> released. We were running 320 instances of Left 4 Dead across 5 IBM >>>> HS21XM blades (Dual E5450s - 3Ghz each core) and the majority of the >>>> servers had players on them. All of the cores were running at 90+% >>>> > CPU > >>>> usage for a few hours. Each physical server was using around 11-12Gb >>>> > of > >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>> RAM for that. >>>> >>>> We weren't doing anything special configuration wise, Left 4 Dead was >>>> running in a default manner. Nothing special done OS wise, just a >>>> > stock > >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>> install of CentOS. I played on one of our servers that night and I >>>> didn't notice anything in-game that indicated performance issues. >>>> >>>> >>>> Midnight wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I'm really surprised by these numbers. I have some pretty finicky >>>>> players who play competitively. I don't know for sure if it is in >>>>> >>>>> >>> their >>> >>> >>>>> head or not, but they claim they get lag with 1 game active on a >>>>> > whole > >>>>> quad 9550 box which I find hard to believe so I tend to take it with >>>>> > a > >>>>> grain of salt. >>>>> >>>>> I would never dream of running 32 games per quad CPU, that is insane >>>>> density imo. No offense but I find it amazing that you are getting >>>>> > any > >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>>> decent performance with the CPU's nearly maxed out, maybe you have >>>>> > some > >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>>> secret sauce in your system :) I get complaints after 25% CPU load >>>>> > on > >>>>> the box so we run all of ours under that at all times, which means >>>>> > 3-4 > >>>>> L4D's per box. They are using 6-9% cpu per game = up to about 40% of >>>>> > a > >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>>> core on newer hardware. This could be from tweaking done to the game >>>>> > > >>>>> settings. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Nick Turner wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> We're running 8 servers per core on 5450s. 64 forks per 2 socket >>>>>> server. 16GB is more than enough on Linux. >>>>>> >>>>>> We've had an entirely server almost full, the CPUs are nearly maxed >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> out >>> >>> >>>>>> but we didn't get any performance complaints. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
