Steven, thanks for the reply. I am completely new to virtualization but am a systems admin by trade. I am going to check the logging levels on the host. I do suspect that swapping is occurring on either/both the host and guest but checking the guest in top shows minimal pageouts.
I was in the process of trying to figure out how virtual memory works in ESXi 4.1. That process left me feeling less than adequate as a sysadmin. :) On Nov 13, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Steven J. Sumichrast wrote: > That's quite odd. I'm running multiple tf2 servers all at 24 slots, almost > always full. All are Debian 5.0.8 x32. Have been running them on esxi 4 and > 4.1 and never heard any complaints. Are you having the engine do verbose > logging to disk? I do have logging turned off, but that was a recent change. > > Are you swapping to disk a lot inside the vm? > > Steven J. Sumichrast > > On Nov 13, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Phillip Burk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a TF2 server set up on a Debian 6 VM. Ping times to/from the server >> from my laptop are quite reasonable: ~40 ms. I have no issues getting the >> server to run but once more than one player joins performance begins to >> degrade. The more players, the worse the performance. Last night we tested >> the server with five players and experienced tons of lag, rubber banding >> effects, and finally the server just froze. Except that the server was >> still running and responsive to ssh. >> >> I checked the performance graphs in vSphere Client and noticed that to both >> the datastore and virtual disk Read and Write were experiencing serious >> latency that appeared to be happening when we were experiencing lag and >> other issues in game. >> >> If anyone has any tips for tuning either the Debian VM or the CentOS host >> that is running this VM I would greatly appreciate it. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
