Hello, I have similar results here on few servers with dual xeon E5335, 16GB ram. Running 50 forks on each and sitting around 80-85% while they're all full, altough I have slightly tweaked kernel and running gentoo.
Kveri On 22.11.2009, at 5:55, Ben Jensz <[email protected]> wrote: > We've been running a lot of L4D servers for a while now, and with L4D2 > we're again running a lot of servers as well (512 forks as of right > now). We were originally running L4D primarily on Dual E5450 (3Ghz) > based servers with 16Gb of RAM each in them, and we found that they > would handle 64 forks with each core running at around 90-95% on > average, and we found running them that close to maxed out for L4D > didn't negatively affect in-game performance. Since then we've > bought a > few new servers based on the Nehalem chips, with the CPUs being the > E5530s (Dual in each server) again with 16Gb of RAM (memory running at > 1067Mhz). > > So this brings us to L4D2, on the older E5450 hardware we've still got > and use, we've found that L4D2 performance is virtually identical to > that of L4D, in that we can again run 64 forks on those same servers > with the each core sitting at 90-95%. Now with the Nehalems > (E5530), we > initially tried 64 forks and found with all servers full it was only > sitting at around 50-60% CPU across all cores, so we cranked that up > to > 96 forks and all of the cores sit at around 80-85% CPU load on average > (with all servers full), so realistically we could add some more forks > if we wanted. Now the first thing people might suggest is that we're > using a tweaked to hell kernel, but thats not the case at all. We're > running them on a completely stock minimal install of CentOS 5.4, with > nothing tweaked at all. > > We haven't tried using the 5530s for any other games as yet, but the > performance increase that we've observed on L4D2 is quite impressive. > Its also nice to see that Valve have been able to keep the Linux > server > CPU load about the same with L4D2 as it was with L4D. > > > / Ben > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > -- > Tato sprava bola prehladana na vyskyt virusov > a nebezpecneho obsahu antivirovym systemom > a zda sa byt cista. > -- Tato sprava bola prehladana na vyskyt virusov a nebezpecneho obsahu antivirovym systemom a zda sa byt cista. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
