[bf1942] Being 'nice' to your servers

[Steve Grecni]

Nice isn't a magical tool that will automagically make a process more 
responsive.  It simply makes that process have a higher or lower 
priority.  So unless you have a lot of junk running on your linux box 
that's eating up CPU time, I doubt it's going to make a noticeable 
difference.  If you want a process to be more responsive, you may want 
to try preemptive kernel patch, but I haven't tried that either and have 
no idea what it will do in real life as well.

Ryan has said that the linux bf42 server has a "feature" in it that 
gives everyone a ping time of 30ms more than windows (I'm paraphrasing, 
so I hope I got it right), so the best thing you can do to make it run 
faster is simply wait until the linux server is better optimized.


Alex Lembesis wrote:
> No responses, U GUYS MAKE ME CRY! :`(
> hehehe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Lembesis [mailto:alex at elitedesigns.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:12 PM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: [bf1942] Being 'nice' to your servers
> 
> 
> Hey guys... just wondering if anyone here has ran their servers at a higher
> priority than it usually does.  What 'nice' did you use and did it help
> increase performance?
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