[bf1942] Serious cpu use drop with beta 7

Fri Jun 27 10:38:20 EDT 2003

"SMP enabled "
Does that work with hyperthreading?
How do you enable it?

BhAaD
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinder P. Gerritsen" <reinder at strikerz.net>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:56 AM
Subject: RE: [bf1942] Serious cpu use drop with beta 7

> I had a "hang" last night. While the 3 bf1942_lnxded processes were
> still there in the ps output, there was no reaction from the server.
> Also screen didn't attach anymore.
> 
> Unfortunately, I currently have no information about when it exactly
> stopped responding, or under which circumstances, but there were
> complaints about lag yesterday evening.
> 
> Slackware 8.1
> 2.4.18 SMP enabled (DIY Compiled to keep out anything that isn't needed)
> OB7-Static.
> 
> Grtz.
> Fox.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Casey Zacek [mailto:bfb-bf at bogleg.org] 
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 13:58
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Serious cpu use drop with beta 7
> 
> 
> 
> Yeah, I actually had OB7 crash on me last night around 18:30 central.
> The server was full at the time.  I didn't post anything, though,
> because I got dumb and deleted the core dump, so I have no backtrace.
> 
> It had been running for about 32 hours.
> 
> This time, it was a Segmetation Fault, though, not the Illegal
> Instruction I got with OB4.
> 
> Martin Steiger wrote (at Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:27:34PM +0200):
> > Hi
> > It seems the CPU-load-problem has "disappeared" (at least for my 
> > server it did)...
> > 
> > Server: P4 2.0 Ghz, 512 MB SDRAM, running DC 0.38 (don't know anything
> 
> > about kernel or anything... :)
> > 
> > However: did anyone notice crashin the server after some amount of 
> > time? Happened yesterday with 20 players playing Stalingrad and today 
> > again with no players on Gazala. If not, can anyone tell me (as easy 
> > as possible) to get some useful information about this crash? Plz, I'm
> 
> > "sort of" a Noob at linux, so only use easy words... :)
> > 
> > Thanx!
> > 
> > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Paul Richards [mailto:noxis at clara.net]
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2003 21:17
> > An: bf1942 at icculus.org
> > Betreff: Re: [bf1942] Serious cpu use drop with beta 7
> > 
> > 
> > Where did those funky stat graphs come from?
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "James Gurney" <james at globalmegacorp.org>
> > To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:23 AM
> > Subject: [bf1942] Serious cpu use drop with beta 7
> > 
> > 
> > > I've been running beta7 since this morning, and the cpu use has
> > > *drmatically* dropped when the server is full.
> > >
> > > You can see this neatly illustrated in here:
> > >
> > > http://fez.cracksmokingmonkeys.net/woo/
> > >
> > > The top graph is cpu use over the last 32 hours or so. The lower 
> > > graph is the number of players on the server in the same time 
> > > period. As you can see, the number of players has been consistant 
> > > before and after switching the server to beta 7. However, average 
> > > cpu use has dropped considerably, which is great news.
> > >
> > > Thanks Andreas!
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
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