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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> From: Brigham Stevens [<A HREF="mailto:brs@vikingmind.com">mailto:brs@vikingmind.com</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: Re: [bf1942] bf1942 max # players question</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I have full root on the box... are there commands </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> that I could use </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> that would tell me the HDD ? I believe it is supposed to be </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> 60GB UltraDMA </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> 7200RPM hard drive.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>check out /proc/ide. for teh drive that you are looking for (eg, hda) there will be another directory w/ model settings etc</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Also, someone wanted me to check which network card I have... </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Are there </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> commands to do that too?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>i forget this one exactly, but you can do an lsmod or /proc/modules to see which driver is loaded for it and that should give you a good idea.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>> The CPU itself is spiking when the player count goes above </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> 30.. and TOP does </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> not show any spikes in any other processes (Don't know if </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> disk access/network </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> access are bundled into the aplication CPU usage or not)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>time spent in the kernel (for interrupts etc) should be in 'system'</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>if you were cpu bound you should see soemthing like close to 100% user cpu use. having large system utilization would mean that you're spending a lot of time doing things like going to disk or network. once the server (bfv is similar in this regard to bf1942) is runnning it doesn't go to disk a lot (do you have logging enabled?)</FONT></P>
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