[cod] Performance issues (was Some feedback on 1.41d )

[Luke]

Jay,

A piece of advice: myself, Killing and several other admins here are
trying to do some high-level diagnostics on the cpu usage of this
expansion so that we can pass this data to Ryan and gray Matter in
the hopes they can alleviate the problem.

I realize you are trying to help by posting a link to 1.41d but
frankly we are days ahead of you. Steves point is that the 2.4
Kernel can give misleading CPU usage reports in tools like 'top' -
so its at least possible (in my mind) that your data is based on
innacurate information - not ours. And, you havent responded yet on
what Kernel you are running so Im assuming you are just ignoring
this issue.

rather than try to 'educate' seasoned linux admins who have been
running dozens of different games for years and years - you might
pay attention to the points he is making and learn somehting. If
not, then your contributions are hindering our ability to pinpoint
the problem... comprede?

Luke

Jay Vasallo said:
> www.codadmin.com
> Front page story. Grab the new linux binaries. Hope this helps you
> with your
> server resource issue.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
> To: <cod at icculus.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 9:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [cod] Performance issues (was Some feedback on 1.41d )
>
>
>> Just to clarify I'm not saying its always that high just that I've
>> seen it
>> peak. Here's the graph showing it:
>> http://gaming.multiplay.co.uk/stats/server_3531_day.png
>>
>> As you can see its not always that high but when it comes to
>> running
>> servers you can have to take these things into consideration. As
>> it
>> stands I would only be really happy running 2 servers on a dual
>> 246
>> which is just silly. It means COD:UO is currently looking the way
>> of
>> spearhead. When that came out everyone wanted it but there was no
>> way to run it for clans at a decent price / performance so it died
>> off.
>>
>> I would hate to see COD:UO do that but as long as there are
>> certain
>> maps / gametypes / settings that cause this sort of load that
>> unfortunately what will happen. Yes you will and there already are
>> providers offering COD:UO at the same price and or free with COD
>> but they and the clans that use them will soon learn its not going
>> to happen.
>>
>> That all said I do have confidence that Ryan and the guys at Grey
>> Matter will do all they can to rectify the situation. To help them
>> do
>> that we try to provide them with as much information about the
>> state
>> of play / issues that we possibly can.
>>
>> And when u say AMD opterons out perform anything on this planet
>> I agree they are way the best performers we have tested hence it
>> hitting 70% on that hardware was even more worrying :(
>>
>>    Steve / K
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jay Vasallo" <haze at clanwarz.net>
>>>
>>> Don't know where you're pulling this stats from but I am going to
>>> say
>>> Negative. We have dual amd 246's running on 64 bit gentoo and 20
>>> man only
>>> pulls 33 for me. Sorry to disagree but AMD, when properly setup
>>> will out
>>> perform anything on this planet.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
>>>
>>>> Sounds like ur running a 2.4 kernel with the cpu measurement
>>>> issue.
>>>> Its not even close to that here. at 20 players we have had 75%
>>>> on
>>>> a opteron 246 with 2Gb ram.
>>>> See previous thread for more details on this issue.
>>
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