[cod] [COD2] High PIngs

Tue Dec 20 18:55:26 EST 2005

i've seen the use of directx 9 increase pings by about 20 ms on some systems..

On 12/20/05, Carlo <carlomoretto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just realised, would the awe mod make a difference to pings?
>
> Also, I have 2 identical pc's on my home network, and 1 of them will always
> have high pings and the other will always have low pings, even if theyre not
> both on the server at the same time.......what would cause this?
>
> Thanks again guys
>
>
> On 20/12/05, Carlo <carlomoretto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I havent got a sv_fps setting, shall I include it....is it set sv_fps
> "20"?
> >
> > My pingscan be as low as 30 but are usually around the 100 mark, but a
> friend of mine always has a ping of about 40 (even when others pings are
> higher). There are also time when everybodys pings go upto about 200 but the
> server doesnt seem to lag
> >
> > With regards to the previous comment, there is nothing running (that I
> know of) and it is on run level 3
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > On 20/12/05, Ian mu < mu.llamas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hiya, just tried connecting to the server. Pings for me were ~20-50ms
> which is fairly normal for my ISP to servers. Others on there were mainly
> ~50ms with a few ~100ms. So it seemed fairly normal on first impressions.
> Lagometer though showed it quite variable between these values, almost as
> though it was being throttled (would raise then go down slowly constantly).
> No client settings made any difference. Double check you sv_fps is 20 and
> I'd up sv_maxrate to 25000 to test.
> > >
> > > I tried connecting to the cod1 server and that was silky smooth, but no
> one was on it.
> > >
> > > So next question I guess I'd ask is if its 150ms for you, is it 150ms
> for "everyone" at that time, maybe it gets worse when server is loaded later
> on (is it fine when empty?), or do some people on the server still have
> lower pings? Does your ping ever vary at all and is good at some point?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12/20/05, Equipa Comercial <comercial at alojamentonaweb.com > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > if you ping the server from outside the machine and its latancy is
> about 15 then surely is a configuration or memory issue.
> > > > Did you disable all services that you dont use on linux machine ? your
> server should be running on runlevel 3 (without X) instead off the default
> 5.
> > > > If you cant solve the problem and you dont mind i'l like to take a
> look into your server to check whats going on.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Telmo
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: Carlo
> > > > To: cod at icculus.org
> > > >
> > > > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 11:28 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [cod] [COD2] High PIngs
> > > >
> > > >  Here is the link to my servers in stats.callofduty.com.......when the
> 2 awe servers (1 cod and 1 cod2) both have players in, look at the
> difference in pings, both are on the same server
> > > >
> > > >
> http://stats.callofduty.com/?search_ip=194.164.25&=Submit
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 19/12/05, Carlo <carlomoretto at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > > Ping from outside of the game and Im getting around 15ms
> > > > >
> > > > > This is the output from "free":
> > > > >
> > > > >                  total          used       free          shared
> buffers     cached
> > > > > Mem:       1554900    860924     693976          0       93132
> 474448
> > > > > -/+ buffers/cache:     293344    1261556
> > > > > Swap:      1630556        128    1630428
> > > > >
> > > > > I cant swap the configs over because the 2 servers that run fine are
> both cod, and the problem one is cod2
> > > > >
> > > > > Carl
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 19/12/05, Ian mu < mu.llamas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Linux uses pretty much all available memory for cache and releases
> it as needed, so that can probably be ignored as perfectly normal. The
> command "free" will show whats being used for cache and whats in actual use.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think you need to start off isolating the problems. If you have
> 2 servers that you ping fine to, swap the configs over (if they are on the
> same box as you said). Also do a traceroute and see if you ping 150 outside
> of the game as well as inside etc.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 12/19/05, Jay Vasallo <jayco1 at charter.net > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Didn't see this one, sorry for the double sugestion.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > > From: Equipa Comercial
> > > > > > > To: cod at icculus.org
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 2:12 PM
> > > > > > > Subject: Re: [cod] [COD2] High PIngs
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > As you can see you only have 32MB Free 1554900k total,  1522112k
> used,    32788k free,
> > > > > > > and dont have a swap partition wich is bad.
> > > > > > > So the problem shound reside in this. You should add more mem to
> it and create a swap partition :)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Regards
> > > > > > > Telmo
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > > From: Carlo
> > > > > > > To: cod at icculus.org
> > > > > > > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 6:49 PM
> > > > > > > Subject: Re: [cod] [COD2] High PIngs
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  slots is 20, run top command:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > top - 18:36:16 up 1 day, 10:58,  1 user,  load average: 1.20,
> 1.27, 1.46
> > > > > > > Cpu(s): 19.9% us,  0.8% sy,  0.3% ni, 78.3% id,  0.2% wa,  0.2%
> hi,  0.3% si
> > > > > > > Mem:   1554900k total,  1522112k used,    32788k free,    74032k
> buffers
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