[bf1942] Crazy CPU use with SMP kernels

[Steven Hartland]

Anyone got any further with this tried so far no joy
on suse 9.0 all SMP:
1. generic (2.4.21-215-smp4G)
2. stripped down (2.4.21-215-default)
3. stripped down (2.6.5)

All lead to 10 -> 20% cpu usage when empty
on a dual 2.2Ghz Opteron :(

    Steve / K
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Crazy CPU use with SMP kernels


> Same here on our test AMD64 suse 9.0 ( 2.4.21-215-smp )
>
> Will have a look with strace when I get some time.
>
>     Steve / K
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Gurney" <james at globalmegacorp.org>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:12 AM
> Subject: [bf1942] Crazy CPU use with SMP kernels
>
>
> > I've read all the information I can find about the problems with the BF
> > server and SMP kernels, but I haven't found if anyone has a workaround
> > for this yet.
> >
> > I have a server running on an SMP box with kernel 2.6.6rc2 (running
> > gentoo), and it uses about 20% cpu when there is no-one connected. Also,
> > during map changes, it spikes to 100% cpu for about a minute or so, and
> > then proceeds with the loading. Before we went SMP, the load was much,
> > much quicker than this and did not spike to 100%.
> >
> > Has anyone got any suggestions for this? Perhaps a kernel compile option
> > which could be enabled/disabled? Based on various forum posts, I tried
> > disabling APM, but that made no difference. Obviously I can't disable
> > SMP, because then we won't have support for the hardware..
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > James
> >
>
>
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