I run CentOS 5.5 x64, things seem to run well. the source engine is still however 32-bit. I use to run CentOS 5.x 32-bit with a PAE kernel so that the system could address the 8GB of RAM. As the application is only 32-bit you don't gain anything as far as memory allocation as the actual engine can't address more than the 3.5gb "magic number" of RAM. Having said that, you shouldn't have a source server using close to 3gb of RAM, lol.
I would suggest you may see system level performance differences which may in turn work more efficiently causing a marginal performance increase in your source servers. I run 64-bit purely because I 'could' and to hopefully get some benefits from system level efficiency. BEWARE!: One trade off is that you can only get 333fps max out of your servers running in a 64-bit environment. Please correct me if this has changed recently. Cheers. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Riemers Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2010 2:13 AM To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Is 64-bit worth it? depends on how busy it is, it can be up to a load of 7 or 8 if its really busy, but hey you want your machine to be used right? at the moment its at 2 now, and i believe l4d1 is getting less and less players.. even if you have 50 servers, there is bound to be a percentage emtpy too. On Mon, 31 May 2010 16:56:10 +0200, D4rKr0W <[email protected]> wrote: > Il 31/05/2010 16:19, Eric Riemers ha scritto: >> i run 20 l4d2 + 10 l4d1 servers + a big mysql server for hlxce >> (collecting >> data for about 50 game servers) >> and seems to run fine on debian 64bits.. same hardware specs as you. Have >> not heard complaints. >> >> Ofcourse keep in mind that l4d's can be forked to save footprints etc, >> and >> mysql is not logging to increase performance (which is default though) >> > > Wow, you've got quite an impressive number of servers on that machine, > i'm curious, how's the load average? :D > > _______________________________________________ > 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
