thanks Chris and Dave for your replies. On windows it was working great and was definitely using more than one core. Don't tell me I have to run 32 slots servers under wine :)
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Christoffer Pedersen <[email protected]> wrote: > SRCDS does not support multithreading/multicore yet, so you don't have this > option at the moment. > > /Chris > > Sendt fra min iPhone 4 > > Den 15/03/2011 kl. 14.48 skrev Claudio Beretta <[email protected] > >: > > > TL;DR version: are there magic command line parameters or convars that > > enable multithreading for srcds games on linux? Or anything that might > > prevent the gameserver from using more than one core? > > > > Long version: > > I recently changed OS from Windows 2008 64 bit to Centos 5.5 64 bit > > because I needed iptables to filter all the incoming attacks so > > popular in these days. > > The hardware remained the same: Xeon w3520 (server version of i7 920), > > 12 GB RAM, 2x80 GB Intel x25-M SSD. > > The problem I'm encountering is that when any 32 slots server gets > > full, the server fps (measured from rcon stats and net_graph 4) drop > > below acceptable levels. They may even reach 20-30 fps, and much less > > when there are bots playing. This obviously affects the tickrate, and > > players experience rubber banding and bad hit detection. > > Both top and rcon stats say that the CPU usage never goes over 100% (1 > core). > > On windows rcon stats reported up to 150%, and sysinternals process > > explorer confirmed that the gameserver was using up to 19% of the > > whole system (which means approximately 1.5 cores, since this box has > > 4+4 cores thanks to hyperthreading). On windows, fps were stable, and > > only in a couple of maps the tickrate would drop below 66. > > I've tried several kernels: the stock centos one > > (2.6.18-194.32.1.el5), a couple provided by my host via netboot > > (2.6.34-something, 2.6.34-something HZ1000) and now i'm using a > > realtime kernel (2.6.33.7-rt29). Both 2.6.34 and the realtime kernel > > were the best regarding to fps jitter, but they did't improve at all > > the low fps when the server is full. > > Playing with taskset to set the affinity of the process has no visible > > effects, same thing with nice and chrt. Also tried disabling all > > addons and using a 3 lines server.cfg (sv_log 0; hostname; > > rcon_password) but still no effect worth mentioning. > > > > I've come to the conclusion that srcds on linux can use at most one > > core. I hope I'm wrong, since it would mean I'm stuck at running 32 > > slots servers at tickrate 33 despite having good hardware. > > How you guys manage to run 32 slots srcds servers on linux? > > Thanks > > Claudio > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
