[bf1942] Server Utilization

[Andreas Fredriksson]

I can't say why some servers are showing this behaviour, but it seems
to depend on your kernel configuration. Last summer I received help from
a community member and we tested many configurations and found the
culprit to be SMP kernels causing a massive CPU overhead.

The same machine running a non-SMP kernel would not have the high-idle
problem.

The carrier problem should be fixed in 1.6 since we have reverted the
carrier collision meshes back to the 1.31 versions which didn't have
the problem.

// Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Kool [mailto:roland at cyso.nl] 
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 1:39 PM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: [bf1942] Server Utilization
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Got some questions about CPU utilization behaviour I noticed 
> since I installed the 1.6 patch on Linux. I've checked the 
> forums @ lightcubed but didn't see any threads about it yet.
> 
> All idle servers (servers with no players) use between 15 and 
> 20% of CPU. Before 1.6 is was between 0 and 5%. That's the 
> CPU util you see when starting 'top'. Caused by PB perhaps?
> 
> If you use screen -r to resume your servers screen, I don't 
> get all server console output. I have to press the enter and 
> it looks like the CPU util reported there is around 100% 
> which drops quickly back to 2-5%.
> 
> Does 1.6 finally fix the collision meshes causing high util 
> on maps with boats/carriers?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Roland Kool
> Thegamezone.nl
>