[bf1942] Server performance

[Roland Kool]

Anton,

Thanks for your feedback.

I already reduced the play time to 20 minutes. Any idea what a good time
is? I think 20 minutes is a nice time to play a map. I changed the
rounds to 3, so you still play an hour the same map (like the default).
Or may be 15 minutes/3 rounds is better?

Do you have any estimates what a good number of players is, that can be
supported on the Linux server? Considering this P4 1.8GHz is dedicated
to this game.
I hope DICE releases a new test version soon. 

Roland



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Anton Jansen [mailto:gradius at fmf.nl] 
Verzonden: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:15 PM
Aan: bf1942 at icculus.org
Onderwerp: Re: [bf1942] Server performance


Hi,
> first the performance was bad with only 8 players. I tweaked the 
> chokebandwidth and maxallowedconnection to 128. Now with 16 players, 
> it's playable but on big maps or after playing a while it's gets more 
> laggy than normal. I guess this is "normal" behaviour in this release?

Yes, it is :-(

> Also, is there a way to stop the debugmessages on the screen?
Yes, pipe the output to /dev/null so start the BF server as follows :

nohup ./bf1942_lnxded > /dev/null  2>&1 &

>They are
> totally useless to gameadmins and I suspect that disabling those
> messages will gain some performance (at least I hope it does). 
Probarly they will not, there is no way to disable them, you can only
get 
rid of them.

>Are there any other performancetweaks known?

What seems to work is bringing down the total number of players and 
restrict the time being played on the map. However, these are only minor

tweaks, the real problem lies in the server code, which DICE is fixing
as 
we speak. So be patienced and wait for a new release to solve some of 
these problems. 


Kind regards,

Anton Jansen
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