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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Didn't say I didn't like it, just said it was quite
unnecessary. =o)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But this is something good to know. Now do
something useful and figure out how to limit resources to a user so that it
doesn't hang a cpu. =o)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Almost have it figured out, i will post tomorrow my
findings.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Jay</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=natedog550@hotmail.com href="mailto:natedog550@hotmail.com">Nathan
P.</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cod@icculus.org
href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:41
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [cod] RHE4 new 2.6
Kernel</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Haha sup bro. Sorry man I can't help it
lol. I like to know how the wheel turns - not to just let it turn
:)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm not running CoD as of currently I am running
MOH:AA. I realize that's a completely different game sorry ..... but
same concept.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I said it helped "some". The "noatime"
option helps eliminate unnecessary writes to the disc. After setting it
I had a customer try and load maps and do anything he could think of to see if
he saw a difference. He said map loading seemed a little
faster. Stressing the word: little.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Like I said do at your own risk. It's not
gonna add 10megs/sec to your hard drive speeds haha.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anything to eliminate unecessary writes is a step
in the right direction in my book.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You don't seem to like my other idea of
seperating OS from data/apps using two drives either....didn't expect you to
respond to the noatime tweak :)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NateDog</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jayco1@charter.net href="mailto:jayco1@charter.net">Jay Vasallo</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cod@icculus.org
href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:24
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [cod] RHE4 new 2.6
Kernel</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh Nathan my friend. The only person I know
that reassembles any kernel given to him to make sure the wheel
turns...lol... One question..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But you can do one performance trick that seems
to have helped some. You can set this in your fstab:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Example:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ext3
defaults,noatime 1
2<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Add noatime after defaults on the hard drive
your running your game servers off of. Basic explination:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"The noatime setting eliminates the need by the
system to make writes to the file system for files which are simply being
read....."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You say it seemed to help some. Some meaning
whio? What game and when did you see the performance increase? Did it kick
in after a certain load, amount of players, resource hit? Can you explain
this a bit?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jay</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=natedog550@hotmail.com
href="mailto:natedog550@hotmail.com">Nathan P.</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cod@icculus.org
href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:16
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [cod] RHE4 new 2.6
Kernel</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yeah I've got RHEL 4 also. BTW, I was
the one that posted about the teamspeak / mysql issue. You need the
compat package for mysql - has the old libraries and such so that you can
use them instead of the new ones that come with the new version of mysql
on RHEL4:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Snipet from the teamspeak
server.ini:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>VendorLib=/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The package you need:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.23-0.i386.rpm<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It may be a different set of numbers now but
that's the name: MySQL-shared-compat</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After that teamspeak will work with
mysql.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I too ran into problems when I turned on
journaling. The main reason is because on a heavy loaded system
because of the journal update time being 5 seconds it can cause' some
lag - there is a setting you can pass that lowers this - used to work
great with the 2.4 kernel but really the 2.6 doesn't need the journal
setting from what I've tested - hurts it more than helps as Jay
mentioned.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But you can do one performance trick that
seems to have helped some. You can set this in your
fstab:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Example:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ext3
defaults,noatime 1
2<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Add noatime after defaults on the hard drive
your running your game servers off of. Basic
explination:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"The noatime setting eliminates the need by
the system to make writes to the file system for files which are simply
being read....."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Use at your own risk :) I just thought I'd
mention it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I recently got upgraded to a dual 73gig SCSI
server. ThePlanet stuck me in the new datacenter at infomart in
Dallas. Has anyone been put in that datacenter yet? I've been
receiving complaints of ping spikes from one of my customers
that is from California. I gathered trace routes from everyone and
it seems to be the link between datacenter 3 and 5 (the new one -
infomart).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone else ran into anything yet? From
what I can tell it seems to be only from the western side of the US
because of the trace routes I've received - the ones that had the problem
were in like Arizona and California etc:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>13 246 ms 200
ms 199 ms dist-vlan32.dsr3-2.dllstx3.theplanet.com
[70.85.127.62]<BR>14 75 ms 57
ms 57 ms po32.dsr1-2.dllstx5.theplanet.com
[70.85.127.110]<BR>15 58 ms 61
ms 58 ms po2.tp-car3.dllstx5.theplanet.com
[70.84.160.165]<BR>16 57 ms 56
ms 56 ms 39.70-84-187.reverse.theplanet.com
[70.84.187.39]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And yes I've opened a support ticket but I'm
not getting anywhere with that :( I realize that trace route packets
are low priority blah blah but when it's consistent between a whole bunch
of different people and the ping is that high - I don't buy into
that.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyways.......</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NateDog</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </DIV></FONT>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jayco1@charter.net href="mailto:jayco1@charter.net">Jay
Vasallo</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cod@icculus.org
href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 20, 2005 9:41
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [cod] RHE4 new 2.6
Kernel</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey Mark,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I rented a few servers from the planet last
month and have the same setup you do to the t. Works great. I also
noticed that it deals with swap mem a little different than the rhe3.
But other than that, runs fine. Did some research on the new file
journaling but noticed a decrease in productivity and increase in ping
when i set the journaling to on so that was a waste of time. But other
than that, if you use it exactly the way the planet gives it to you, the
server rocks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=defilm@acm.org href="mailto:defilm@acm.org">Mark J.
DeFilippis</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cod@icculus.org
href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 20, 2005 9:23
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [cod] RHE4 new 2.6
Kernel</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><BR>Anyone had experience with running the COD
binaries on the new RedHat Enterprise Server 4.0 with 2.6 SMP and
threading enhancements?<BR><BR>On theplanet.com, and servermatrix.com,
there are a few quotes here and there about "nice performance
increase". (Actually I would be happy if it is better than the
existing ES3 SMP kernel which will often run a cpu up to 100% while
the other sits idle at 0%, after the major lag, it kicks in. (yea!
isn't that proactive!)<BR><BR>I am hoping 2.6 enhancements to RHE4
does the trick.<BR><BR>Anyone?<BR><BR>I did see some issues with
Teamspeak and issues with mysql. At the time of posting, the
admins recommended solution was to rev back up2date for the mysql
package to 4.0, and Teamspeak is a happy camper again.<BR><BR>Any
input from someone doing this already would be
appreciated.<BR><BR>Thanks<BR><BR>Md<BR><BR><X-SIGSEP>
<P></X-SIGSEP><TT>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>S1,Mark
J. DeFilippis, Ph. D EE
defilm@acm.org<BR>
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