[bf1942] Silly Question... I anyone's server working?

[Casey Zacek]

Well, the Linux server was simply not playable.  The bungee effect is
just too crappy, and the mis-timing of big-gun shots vs. their
perceived recoil or whatever was too screwy.

So, I downloaded winex3.0 from cvs, compiled, and got it running
eventually.  The machine is a dual AthlonMP 1800+, and runs 2
20-player CS servers along with the one 30-player BF1942 server.  Xvfb
generally eats about 4-25% of a CPU (which I think is far too high,
personally), and the 'wineserver' thread runs around 10% of a CPU, and
the 3 'wine BF1942.exe' threads total around 30% of a CPU.. well,
that's current usage, and there are only 4 players on the server.

Here are some more stats:

http://bfb.bogleg.org/stats/index.cgi?g=h

Basically, though, the feel is that the two 20-plr CS servers (running
-pingboost 2) start lagging when the BF server reaches around 24
players, and the BF server also lags aroune 26-27 players.

Good enough for now...

Don K wrote (at Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:08:44PM -0800):
> What kinda performance hit are we talking?  I've half considered doing it since 3.x came out..
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Casey Zacek <bfb-bf at bogleg.org>
> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 11:42 am
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Silly Question...  I anyone's server working?
> 
> > 
> > I'm running the Windows dedicated server under winex 3.0, with the
> > display exported to Xvfb.  It burns extra CPU, but it works
> > near-flawlessly.
> > 
> > I'm anxiously awaiting a decently-working native Linux port. :)
> > 
> > Don K wrote (at Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:23:25AM -0800):
> > > I personally gave up running the server for now because of the 
> > 'bungee problems', but I got the feeling from posts that only some 
> > people's servers were affected.  Is anyone currently using the 
> > server?  Or, are the problems so widespread and fundemental that 
> > no one is running it?  If you are using it, what's your setup?  
> > I'd have to think that it must work *somewhere* given how hard a 
> > time the devs had in replicating some of our issues...
> > > 
> > > Znapel
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > -- Casey Zacek (Zippo)                  Beer for Breakfast servers
> >   66.111.111.66:27015 (CS multi-map)     <" 
> > target="l">http://bfb.bogleg.org/>   66.111.111.66:27016 (CS 
> > inferno/dust2/aztec/militia) Dallas, TX
> >   66.111.111.66:14567 (BF1942)
> > 
> 

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-- Casey Zacek (Zippo)                  Beer for Breakfast servers
   66.111.111.66:27015 (CS multi-map)     <http://bfb.bogleg.org/>
   66.111.111.66:27016 (CS inferno/dust2/aztec/militia) Dallas, TX
   66.111.111.66:14567 (BF1942)