SteamCMD is more efficient than hldsupdatetool but it does chew a lot of
cpu and disk i/o too while it is updating. I did also notice that it is
impossible to update one server without making other gameservers lag at
the same time due to SteamCMD running.
You may be able to run it as limited user with limited resources set by
the system but i saw that too annoying to set up.
-ics
Weasel kirjoitti:
Anybody else seen this?
I run multiple game servers on the same box - usually.
I just happen to be building-out a new server.
I have 8 cores, multiple gig's of RAM, etc - won't bore you with the details.
I noticed a BIG difference in how HLDSUpdateTool behaves compared to SteamCMD
when updating the dedicated server installs on this new server.
I happened to run an HLDSUpdateTool install for one Source game, at the same
time I happened to run a SteamCMD install for TF2 beta.
As expected and normally experienced, while HLDSUpdateTool (steam binary) was
running doing that install, there was no particular high utilization of CPU.
It used about 4-5% of one core/hyper-thread.
However, when the SteamCMD install kicked-off (which was just to freshen an
installation that I had already performed a few days before), I noticed that it
consumed ~100%(+) of one one core/hyper-thread!
I also noticed some packet loss on the continuous ping I typically leave
running while doing this stuff.
It didn't take long to run (being there was already an installation in place).
However, If I had been doing that while there were multiple games running, it
would have lagged everybody out - if not disconnected them.
I have never had any issues historically with HLDSUpdateTool doing that -
unless I was running a *BUNCH* of them simultaneously.
Is there any way to "throttle" the utilization for SteamCMD?
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