How can a high maxrate value choke clients? :/ if they're choking they just need to reduce their rate!
On Thursday, 24 February 2011, Björn Rohlén <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > Having fiddled with this particular issue since the beta-days, sv_maxrate > 50000 is sufficient for a 20 player server, unless you want to experience > choke and weirdness on the clients. I would presume 24 and even 32 player > servers would require even more. > > I'd watch out for going over 80k though, unless you want to choke players > with bad internet-connections like 512kbit downstream to death. We actually > tested this as well, since we had a 512kbit-player (hi snowie) and 75k was > the value we settled on. > > This, of course, is because you make sv_minrate follow sv_maxrate as to > avoid having the default rate of the client (25k) being set. > > If you are cheap, you could set minrate to 30k and maxrate to 60k and watch > the awe of the server population when they suddenly notice a DRASTIC > improvement in performance on your server. > > To put them into awe but still keep within acceptable limits, sv_minrate > 45000 and sv_maxrate 75000 would probably do the trick. > > -TheG > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Vathral <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, I'd like to work on an issue that members says they've been having. >> There have been complaints of lag and such that I'd like to look into. What >> are the default rates to work off? If possible I'd like to see what other >> admins out there are running as I do not fully understand how to tweak >> settings like fps, sv_maxrate, maxupdaterate, etc. >> >> Running a Xeon 3230 with 4gb of ram, CentOS5, 100 Mbps link. Running >> Sourcemod/MM with as few plugins as possible. No services like apache, >> mysql, logging disabled where possible. >> >> This is what I have so far on one server >> >> fps_max 300 // Frame rate limiter >> >> sv_maxreplay 2 >> >> sv_minrate 10000 // Min bandwidth rate allowed on server, 0 == >> unlimited >> sv_maxrate 25000 // Max bandwidth rate allowed on server, 0 == >> unlimited >> >> sv_mincmdrate 33 >> sv_maxcmdrate 66 >> >> sv_minupdaterate 33 // Minimum updates per second that the server >> will allow >> sv_maxupdaterate 66 // Maximum updates per second that the server >> will allow >> >> Any suggestions? Yes theres Google but I trust what I've read on here such >> as with the whole FPS issue. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- Thanks, - Saul. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
