[mohaa] Missleading pings?

[Simon Hough]

Aaaah, this machine I am running is a 200mhz box with 128meg of ram
and acts as a file server... BUT I did a `top` command and it was only
using 30% cpu?!?!

Cheers for the info though Eric, much appreciatted.

Si
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Koldeweij" <eric at no-sense.net>
To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [mohaa] Missleading pings?


> On a T1 with sv_maxRate set to 7000 you can accomodate 28 players,
provided
> no other servers are running (like apache or other game servers)
>
> If your box is underpowered pings can fly up too. The MOHAA server gobbles
> up 80Mb easily. I found 128 Mb RAM unacceptable for a non-Xwindows linux
2.4
> box running MOHAA (had to shut off apache and all other servers to have it
> run smoothly), so I recommend at least 256Mb RAM and over 600Mhz PIII or
> equivalent.
>
> And don't forget, those poor 56K modem gamers won't ever get a low ping :)
>
> Eric.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Hough" <shough at chartermi.net>
> To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:22
> Subject: Re: [mohaa] Missleading pings?
>
>
> > Thanks Eric:)
> >
> > Still I get alot of 100+ pings, and this is a T1, done
> > all the math with the maxrate/clients etc.... weirdness.
> >
> > Si
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eric Koldeweij" <eric at no-sense.net>
> > To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 7:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: [mohaa] Missleading pings?
> >
> >
> > > I think that's pretty normal and expected.
> > > I don't know about MOHAA, but most other games just measure the
> roundtrip
> > > time for the regular game packets, not the ICMP packets which are sent
> by
> > > the ping program.
> > > Since the MOHAA ping has to be received and processed by the MOHAA
> server
> > > and the regular ping is handled by the system a lot of extra overhead
is
> > > introduced, so 20ms difference is not strange.
> > > You cannot compare regular pings with MOHAA pings. The only thing you
> know
> > > is that the bigger the difference the more busy the MOHAA server
> probably
> > is
> > > :)
> > >
> > > Eric.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Simon Hough" <shough at chartermi.net>
> > > To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 22:37
> > > Subject: [mohaa] Missleading pings?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Just a question, I have a T1 linked to my Ded server,
> > > > I get a client come onto the game with say a ping
> > > > of 100, I then drop to shell and ping the same client
> > > > and get around 80... go figure:?
> > > >
> > > > Anyone else had this problem?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > >
> > > > Simon
> > >
>