>From an "will my Ubuntu Linux server keep working when installing these kernel packages" standpoint, yes, it's perfectly safe to install those packages. What you'll get after booting your system with this kernel is a system that uses a slightly different process scheduler, one that is optimized for "real time" processes. This is mainly useful for audio and video processing, because when you're mixing audio and/or video streams even the slightest delay can cause synchronisation issues, which most people will notice immediately and consider very annoying.
>From a SRCDS server standpoint I don't think you will notice much (if any) difference, certainly not on a system that's already powerful enough to handle SRCDS server and isn't doing anything else that might interfere with those processes. Installing a different kernel will certainly not affect your frame rate, because that's entirely managed by the game engine. Personally I think a 1000 FPS server is BS, maybe 100 FPS could be useful but for most people 66 FPS will give a good enough playing experience. On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:31 PM, PAL-18 <[email protected]> wrote: > I host several game servers on a dedicated Ubuntu 64Bit server and the busy > ones have been having major problems lately where guns are doing no damage > even with direct head/body shots (there's even blood splatter). > > I assume this has to do with using the default kernel (fps is limited to > 64). > > Upgrading the kernel scares me since it can fubar the system. So i started > researching other methods and i found the following: > > apt-get install linux-headers-lowlatency > apt-get install linux-lowlatency > > I can't find any specific information what these 2 packages do; they're a > either realtime kernel or 1000hz kernel. > > So my question is; is it safe to install the above packages? Will they > increase my FPS to 1000? Or will they affect the stability and performance > of the OS in a negative way? > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
