[bf1942] Jerky lag on linux servers

Onion onion at virasto.com
Wed Feb 26 05:13:52 EST 2003


Too bad, 

Redirecting server output messages to /dev/null didn't help in my setup...
Server is still annoyingly jerky, specially when using tanks and when 
turning around.

On a postive side, it doesn't crash and ping's are now 0 ;)

BF build 1045955499 / Debian Woody / Athlon TB 900Mhz / 512MB

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:29:02PM -0800, Cream[DONut] wrote:
> Tonight we had a practice match, and decided to play on my linux server 
> (1ghz, 512mb ram etc), im running the server in a "screen" window, maybe 
> that matters. (attached and detached was the same)
> 
> It was very weird, we all had pings in the 40'ies, server cpu usage was at 
> 33%, and ram usage was at 27%, but everyone had extreme jerkyness and lag, 
> the problem appeared right around when the 16'th player joined, and the 
> fighting heated up. I noticed that the server console is being extremely 
> spammed when there is fighting going on, so i tried starting the server 
> with "./bf1942_lnxded >/dev/null" where i direct the console output to the 
> void.. and it helped immensly.
> 
> Hope this will help others
> Cream
> 



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