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<font size=3>I am convinced that the issue with Cassino is related to the
map<br>
tracings. I don't run it unless it is for competition. Or
should<br>
I say, it is not one of the type of maps you would want to put<br>
up a 24x7 server on. ;-))<br><br>
Yes, am aware of Jay's system. Still using it every day.<br>
I do need different configs for different mods, but I too<br>
use the same base config.<br><br>
Pam does indeed cause the server to crash periodically.<br>
This is true of 1.08 and was true of 1.07. For UO as<br>
well 3.12. This is largely due to the fact that TWL/CAL
started<br>
making code changes in addition to Cvar changes, and rules<br>
files.<br><br>
I have reported numerous bugs and issues. (like the UO<br>
map will get stuck on Stalingrad when the server is empty<br>
and running latest pam 3.12. Goes through the rotation, and<br>
gets never exists Stalingrad. You enter the server and it<br>
is sitting at the "end of match map". Originally I had
this issue<br>
and traced it back to an error in the rotation, but this is not<br>
the case here... See this one at all?<br><br>
Don't even mention BF2. I assume you are following this
farce!<br>
1. Original release is based on older code than the DEMO!<br>
hence the 1.0 server crashes after every map on
every linux<br>
version. (Yea, bet that was just too hard
to find in Q/A! OMFG!)<br>
2. Yea! They release the patch 1.01. Stops the crash, and
adds<br>
a memory bug that impacts the Windows and Linux
servers.<br>
Oh No!! The Ranked server $$$
stream. Call in the coders<br>
to patch windows for ranked servers NOW!
Done.<br>
Linux server folks: "Err. Please Roll
back... we will get to ya...<br>
We released the badly Q/A 1.01 patch for the
disaster not Q/A<br>
at all 1.00 release that was based on 4
revisions older than the<br>
released demo, and we still can't get it
right! But sheww! The<br>
ranked Windows servers are printing money again
for EA!<br><br>
I am looking forward to COD II, and DOD: Source. Looks like<br>
we may have DOD:Source first. Let them 14-18 y/o's teach<br>
EA how it is done! Maybe it is better because the mod team<br>
was too young to drink???<br><br>
Remember, IWN promised us a simultaneous release of WIN<br>
and Linux servers. I also think Ryan has their ear now.<br><br>
With COD II coming due soon, there is an eerie silence<br>
but it makes me wonder what the announced COD III will<br>
be like? (Star-raiders?..... Ooof, am I dating myself??)<br><br>
COD II has the potential to Kick BF2's a**. I love BF1942,<br>
don't get me wrong, but I am not all that impressed with BF2.<br><br>
Oh yea... 10GB, OMG! Is this on the quad CPU server?<br><br>
No one runs boxes like you Jay. Most take what the server<br>
company offers. I did look in to doing a co-lo situation as<br>
we once talked about, but I found if I co-lo a Dual CPU,<br>
Dual core, and co-lo it at a data center, the bandwidth<br>
turned out to be way more than I am paying for a plain<br>
vanilla Dual CPU, RH 2.4, 2.6 SMP, 4GB now. I would<br>
love to build my own, but the bandwidth is over-priced.<br>
(Wholesale I can get bandwidth at $30/Meg/mo. So a<br>
2 Meg Internet connection would cost me $60/mo.)<br>
The problem is the loop and port charge. Port charge<br>
is $200/mo, and loop is $600/mo.<br><br>
However, considering what you are running Jay, it may<br>
pay overall to purchase your own bandwidth direct.<br>
With telecom the way it is now, the markup from the<br>
datacenters are high. While direct you won't get the<br>
wholesale a DC will get. So it would be 30% more,<br>
still likely less $.<br><br>
If you want to look in to something like this for Sh*t and<br>
Giggles, let me know. Send me a location you would<br>
want a termination. You could get an private based<br>
MPLS circuit, direct peer in to the internet via a tier<br>
1 carrier, with a CIR of 2Mbs, and Burst<br>
up to PIR, Best effort traffic, no Discard enable on<br>
burst for likely less than you are paying now. And I<br>
am talking a DS3 port cost and loop, 2Mbs CIR,<br>
43Mbs PIR.... I am serious. could be a nice savings.<br><br>
<br>
Mark<br><br>
<br><br>
<br>
At 04:54 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote:<br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>He
still had issues with high cpu with cassino. I just don't get it. I can
run it on my systems and not see the cpu issue.</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>I only use one simple config, not five
and six linking each other to themselves....</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>He was also using pamuo and I don't put
them on my servers....</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>I also found that pam caused the server
to crash every once in a while but the clients don't seem to mind...they
just restart the server if this mod.</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>I have spoken to a hugh amount of people
who create mods or who love to tweak the code that is present for
coduo.... </font><font size=3><br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>They hate gm.... nothing new
there, I would have expected that....</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>Why don't they just fix the issues and
release the game new again? Oh because COD II will come out. That's
right.</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>But can they compete with EA {DICE} and
BF - II? But then again...they are still trying to fix their backflipped
memory leak on all systems...</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>Gamestate.... here's a word of
interest......
<a href="http://www.codextrem.com">www.codextrem.com</a> - Buddie
of mine made this mod... awesome mod ... has all the bells and
whistles....</font><font size=3><br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>But the mod is a cpu hog. 7 percent of
one cpu while no one in the game....</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>If I personally knew that my creation
could be tweaked and corrected, I would fix it. I would release my second
game, and then definately release a fixed version of the first game, just
to make everyone happy.</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>This cpu issue has caused thousands of
dollars of loss -> gsp providers feeel it the most as they battle for
the lowest amount of cash, dinero, they will ask per slot, making the
gaming server providers whores in this industry.
Shame....</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>Doc. J, some people don't think like
us.... we would release a perfect version? Hell
yea.</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>Ryan did a great job with what was
provided to him and he receives our praises daily, but the issue remains
at hand.... the orginal code has way too many flaws - but he prolly can't
address them... cause I know he would.</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>But having a beefed up machine does
help. Extra ram does help! People think I am nuts when I show them new
boxes such as ...</font><font size=3><br>
<br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>top - 15:40:49 up 3 days, 23:15, 1
user, load average: 0.05, 0.06, 0.01<br>
Tasks: 85 total, 1 running, 84
sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie<br>
Cpu(s): 1.7% us, 0.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.2% id, 0.1%
wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si<br>
Mem: 10180040k total, 2615332k used, 7564708k
free, 109000k buffers<br>
Swap: 3068404k total, 0k
used, 3068404k free, 912700k cached<br>
</font><font size=3> <br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>But then again, when game servers run
into this cpu issue, I always make sure my boxes can handle the extra
mile.<br>
</font><font size=3> <br>
<br>
<br>
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<dd>----- Original Message ----- <br>
<dd>From:</b> <a href="mailto:defilm@acm.org">Mark J. DeFilippis</a>
<br>
<dd>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</a> <br>
<dd>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 09, 2005 9:20 AM<br>
<dd>Subject:</b> RE: [cod] Laggy CoD:UO Server any updates???<br><br>
<br>
<dd>Jay is tha man! It is going to be critical to have Jay around<br>
<dd>for COD2. His R&D skills are impeccable. If he were in NY,<br>
<dd>as CTO of a technology firm, would hire him in an instant.<br><br>
<dd>Say hello to him at clanwarz.net!<br><br>
<dd>This is because the subject does not matter. I try to get<br>
<dd>guys that can analyze themselves out of a box all the time,<br>
<dd>hundreds of interviews and still always looking. And yea,<br>
<dd>we pay well.<br>
<br>
<dd>OK Jay. Spit it out. What did you change. I am not having<br>
<dd>major issues like 80% CPU, but UO FOY with all things a<br>
<dd>blazing and 20 users will bring one CPU to 80%.<br><br>
<dd>I currently run COD max_rate at 15000<br>
<dd>COD:UO max_rate at 25000<br><br>
<dd>What is the latest tweaked Cvars that made him a happy camper?<br><br>
<dd>Dr. D<br><br>
<dd>At 06:39 PM 6/16/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>
<dd>I would like to say a HUGE thank you to Jay Vasallo, the server is a whole<br>
<dd>lot better then it ever was. I can't thank you enough Jay. This guy knows<br>
<dd>his stuff :D<br><br>
<dd>Sike<br><br>
<dd>-----Original Message-----<br>
<dd>From: Geoff Goas [<a href="mailto:gitman@gmail.com" eudora="autourl">mailto:gitman@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<dd>Sent: Friday, 17 June 2005 2:21 AM<br>
<dd>To: cod@icculus.org<br>
<dd>Subject: Re: [cod] Laggy CoD:UO Server any updates???<br><br>
<dd>cassino has always been a laggy map<br><br>
<dd>On 6/16/05, Jay Vasallo <jayco1@charter.net> wrote:<br>
<dd>> Currently we are running a 14 slot server on a dual opteron 242 server,<br>
<dd>and<br>
<dd>> it still reaches 70-80% cpu usage.<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> I would say something is wrong, definately wrong. You have msn?<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> ----- Original Message ----- <br>
<dd>> From: Craig Finck <br>
<dd>> To: cod@icculus.org <br>
<dd>> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:56 AM<br>
<dd>> Subject: RE: [cod] Laggy CoD:UO Server any updates???<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> We're running a dual opetron 242 server with 2gb ram (we do host other<br>
<dd>> servers on this box as well), we're using fedora core 2 as our OS.<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Any other info on the box you need?<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Running a top command while the CoD:uo server is on the map Cassino with<br>
<dd>> 12-14 players shows CoD:UO with 70-80% CPU usage. I have tried looking<br>
<dd>> around to see what could be causing such high CPU usage, but I can not<br>
<dd>find<br>
<dd>> anything.<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> I hope this is enough info.<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Thanks<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Sike<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> ________________________________<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> From: Jay Vasallo [<a href="mailto:jayco1@charter.net" eudora="autourl">mailto:jayco1@charter.net</a>] <br>
<dd>> Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2005 5:31 PM<br>
<dd>> To: cod@icculus.org<br>
<dd>> Subject: Re: [cod] Laggy CoD:UO Server any updates???<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Hmm, high cpu usage? <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Well explain high cpu usage? What type of box, specs and os are you<br>
<dd>running<br>
<dd>> now?<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> ----- Original Message ----- <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> From: Craig Finck <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> To: cod@icculus.org <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:22 AM<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Subject: RE: [cod] Laggy CoD:UO Server any updates???<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Sorry, I didn't explain myself properly. We do currently run aCoD:UO<br>
<dd>server<br>
<dd>> on the box, just thought the 64bit code might help with the high CPU<br>
<dd>usage.<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Sike<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> ________________________________<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> From: Jay Vasallo [<a href="mailto:jayco1@charter.net" eudora="autourl">mailto:jayco1@charter.net</a>] <br>
<dd>> Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2005 5:19 PM<br>
<dd>> To: cod@icculus.org<br>
<dd>> Subject: Re: [cod] Laggy CoD:UO Server any updates???<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Errr...hault.<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> 32 bit games runs on 64 bit linux. So go for it. We have 28 machines<br>
<dd>running<br>
<dd>> 64 bit gentoo and fc3 and it is a beautiful thing.<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Enjoy!<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> =o)<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> ----- Original Message ----- <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> From: Craig Finck <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> To: cod@icculus.org <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:24 AM<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Subject: [cod] Laggy CoD:UO Server any updates???<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Hey guys,<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Long time reader, first time poster. I have a question that I hope<br>
<dd>someone<br>
<dd>> can answer. Does anyone know if they are going to release a 64 bit CoD:UO<br>
<dd>> Linux binary?<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Failing that an updated binary that doesn't use huge amounts of CPU on<br>
<dd>maps<br>
<dd>> like Cassino would be nice.<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Currently we are running a 14 slot server on a dual opteron 242 server,<br>
<dd>and<br>
<dd>> it still reaches 70-80% cpu usage.<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Anyone know how to remedy this without having to wait for a new patch?<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Thanks<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Sike<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> USFTechgaming.com<br>
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