[cod] Disapointed

[Mike]

I take it you think we are server newbies? :)
I know maydays server is fast. My own server is a P4 2.4Ghz, 30Gb hdd,
1024Mb pc2100 ram and a geforce 3. So I hardly think you can compare your
system to that? ;)

With a system like this, it SHOULD work. :/


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Kreuziger" <jkreuzig at cyberonic.com>
To: <cod at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [cod] Disapointed


> Ok,  here is what I'm running my CoD linux server on.
>
> Computer:  PII 200MHz Dual Processor, 128MB RAM, 2.1 GB HD - I got this
> system for $60 US at the Los Angeles
> Computer Show at the LA County Fairgrounds.  I added a spare 18GB HD that
I
> had laying around.
>
> RedHat 7.1 - I chose this distro because I had it burned to CD already.
No
> other reason.
>
> 1500/768 DSL connection - My IP is static, and my speed tests on my
> connection run 1300/620.  So I'm getting just about
> the max I can out of my connection (minus overhead of course).
>
> Cisco 678 DSL Modem connected to Linksys BEFSR81 router - After setting
> things up properly, I seem to be getting a decent
> connection.
>
> Now, my CoD setup is at a maxrate of 8000, and 8 players.  This gives me
> just enough upload speed left to not swamp my
> connection.  When I'm on the CoD server alone, my ping bounces between
> 3-10ms.  Last night, some of my clanmates and I
> played around.  There were 6 total users.  Nobody pinged higher than 60.
My
> ping jumped up, and I think it was a combination
> of connection and CPU.  Mind you, a quick check of top on the Linux box
> revealed that the CPU's were getting HAMMERED,
> as well as CoD using 108MB of memory.  Also, in between rounds, there is
> always a 1-2 second "Connection Interupted" message.
> On top of that, the server loads the maps quite slow.  The thing is, I'm
> running this on such a slow machine, I expected to have these
> sorts of problems.  The guys in my clan are happy that we can play around
> with the server, and learn the maps.  Do I have the same
> problems when I run a Windowz server on my P4, 2.8GHz Hyperthreading, 1GB
> PC3200 Dual Channel, 120GB SATA HD machine?
> Nope.  But I don't expect to have the same problems.  If I had an extra
disk
> for the P4, I'd try it out.  I'd suspect I would not have
> any problems.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MayDay" <MayDay at Players-Inc.dk>
> To: <cod at icculus.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:38 AM
> Subject: [cod] Disapointed
>
>
> > I was expecting a little more replies to my post about my linux server
> > lagging, or at LEAST some post on wether the rest of you have seen these
> > lags.
> >
> > If your server is running perfect under linus with no lags or
"Connection
> > Interupts" at all, please write your:
> >
> > Distro, Kernel, Machine, Bandwidth.
> >
> > Thanks again...
> >
> > file://MD
>
>