Everytime a new weapon goes 'pew pew' the laser destroys a section of your CPU. It's a new feature.
On 25/07/2011 12:14, "Andres Pozos" <javato...@yahoo.es> wrote: >Its not a bug its a "feature", jk. Orangebox take teh 100% cpu usage in >a core with more than 25 slots, i tested it on many linux distros, many >kernel configurations and many cpus. So welcome to the club. >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for the reply. >> >> The servers are build according to Tyans best practise, so everything >>is inserted in the correct slots. I've recently also updated the BIOS >>versions to be sure. >> >> One thing I notice, at the memory settings is a "snooping" option - If >>this is disabled, the overall load is slightly lower (as it is now). >> >> I'd generally wouldn't blame the hardware either, however, seeing I >>can't find anything software wise, it's the logical next thing to look >>at. >> >> Any more tips are welcome! >> >> Saint K. >> ________________________________________ >> From: Jesse Molina [je...@opendreams.net] >> Sent: 25 July 2011 12:36 >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >> Cc: Saint K. >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] cpu on i7 920 >> >> Looks fine, don't mess with it. >> >> generic-receive-offload would be good if you were doing 10G networking, >> but otherwise forget about it. >> >> Make sure that your RAM is in the right slots as recommended by Tyan. >> That can slow things down sometimes but I would not expect that to cause >> such significant problems. >> >> I have no clue. Grab an old cruddy desktop, set it up on your home >> network, do a quickplay qualified server, and then watch how it runs. >> Use the same OS and versions you are using on your server and then start >> twiddling. You only need about a 2Mbps upstream rate for a 24-player >> server. >> >> I would blame software way before I started blaming hardware. >> >> Actually, I'd blame something you did unknowingly, first, but just >> because I'm a BOFH. >> >> People like to throw switches in the desperate hope that one of them was >> put there by system developers specifically just to slow things down, >> like a turbo switch on an old 486DX. >> >> "Surely, my sheer desire to make things go faster and by randomly >> throwing every bios setting, recompiling my kernel with obscure realtime >> patches I found, enabling weird sysctrl parameters, and buying a Bigfoot >> gaming NIC will make things go faster!" >> >> And that's why we have fps_max 1000 and 100PPS update/cmd rates on >>servers. >> >> I really have no idea what I'm talking about. I've only been messing >> with srcds servers for the last nine months or so. >> >> Then again... Seagate did ship me all of those SATA 300 drives with the >> 150-limiting jumpers on by default. >> >> >> >> Saint K. wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am getting these values returned, not entirely sure what I am >>>looking at; >>> >>> mrblonde:~# ethtool -k eth0 >>> Offload parameters for eth0: >>> rx-checksumming: on >>> tx-checksumming: on >>> scatter-gather: on >>> tcp-segmentation-offload: off >>> udp-fragmentation-offload: off >>> generic-segmentation-offload: on >>> generic-receive-offload: off >>> large-receive-offload: off >>> ntuple-filters: off >>> receive-hashing: off >>> >>> >>> Does this appear to be good? I've checked the chipset specs and it >>>supports checksum offloading. >>> >>> Saint K. >>> ________________________________________ >>> From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com >>>[hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Andrew >>>Armitage [and...@thirdlife.org] >>> Sent: 25 July 2011 10:36 >>> To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com >>> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] cpu on i7 920 >>> >>> I wouldn't expect problems with. But I happily admit to being no >>>expert. >>> >>> Try ethtool -k<interface> and see what's what? >>> >>> A >>> >>> On 25/07/2011 08:42, Saint K. wrote: >>>> The servers are build on Tyan Tempest i5400 motherboards, based on >>>> the Intel 5400B chipset platform, the Gbit nic's used on this board >>>> are Intel 82563EB chips. >>>> >>>> I've never really figured the load could be related to the networking >>>> chip as our throughput tests never really show any issues when tested >>>> (with all sorts of packet sizes, tcp/udp) >>>> >>>> Saint K. ________________________________________ From: >>>> hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com >>>> [hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Andrew >>>> Armitage [and...@thirdlife.org] Sent: 25 July 2011 09:36 To: >>>> hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] cpu on i7 >>>> 920 >>>> >>>> Maybe the issue is the network hardware? HLDS is very network >>>> intensive. >>>> >>>> I believe that some cards support checksum offloading and some >>>> don't. >>>> >>>> A >>>> >>>> On 25/07/2011 07:28, Saint K. wrote: >>>>> What I am still not getting is that our Xeon E5420's are doing >>>>> like 70-80% load on a single core for 24 players, and our Xeon >>>>> E5410's 90%+, where you say your older 4600+ does 70%. >>>>> >>>>> Tried all sorts of different kernels out there. >>>>> >>>>> Is there perhaps certain BIOS settings which could benefit when >>>>> running gameservers on them? >>>>> >>>>> Ours surely should perform much better then that? >>>>> >>>>> Saint K. ________________________________________ From: >>>>> hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com >>>>> [hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Jesse >>>>> Molina [je...@opendreams.net] Sent: 25 July 2011 05:15 To: >>>>> Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: >>>>> [hlds_linux] cpu on i7 920 >>>>> >>>>> I have a AMD Phenom x6 1055T doing multiple servers at the same >>>>> time. TF2 causes the active core to go to 100% for about two >>>>> seconds during map changes, but otherwise I've never seen it go >>>>> that high for extended periods of time. Average during full >>>>> 24-player usage is about 40%. >>>>> >>>>> I also have an older AMD Athlon64 x2 4600+ that runs a single >>>>> 24-player TF2 quickplay server. It averages 70% usage when full >>>>> and gameplay is great. >>>>> >>>>> Both of these are desktop class boards with DDR2 PC800M RAM. >>>>> Linux 2.6.39. >>>>> >>>>> Try watching your CPU usage at (relatively) high resolution with >>>>> something like "htop -d 1" >>>>> >>>>> No clue why you are maxing out like that. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Eric Riemers wrote: >>>>>> All, >>>>>> >>>>>> I run a 32 slots server on a i7 920 @ 2.67ghz, but i can see >>>>>> with top and such that its potentially maxing out at 100% at >>>>>> times since it only uses one core. Is it really now doing so much >>>>>> cpu that even a i7 core isn't enough? Didn't have much complaints >>>>>> before the pew pew. >>>>>> >>>>>> 24 slots on the same server do around 60% when full. >>>>>> >>>>>> Eric >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, >>>>>> edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please >>>>>> visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>>>> -- # Jesse Molina # Mail = je...@opendreams.net # Page = >>>>> page-je...@opendreams.net # Cell = 1.602.323.7608 # Web = >>>>> http://www.opendreams.net/jesse/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ 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 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ 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 >> -- >> # Jesse Molina >> # Mail = je...@opendreams.net >> # Page = page-je...@opendreams.net >> # Cell = 1.602.323.7608 >> # Web = http://www.opendreams.net/jesse/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
