[mohaa] CPU hogging (Was: [mohaa] Why is it so quit overhere)

[Eric Koldeweij]

I wasn't complaining about lag, I was complaining about the ridiculous 
CPU usage :)
Having a server in a 19" rack with a good bandwidth is pretty costly and 
right now mine is pretty much filled up with just the Spearhead server. 
Therefore I cannot rent out space on it for other (game) services. Even 
with an upgrade to a P4 there is little room to spare. I have run 
16-player Quake3 servers (same engine!!) on a PII-333 and there was no 
problem at all.

I will manage, but I think with this CPU usage renting Spearhead servers 
(on commercial game services like Jolt for instance) will be too costly 
for most gamers and clans and thus is bad news for the game.

And for crashing, I run 2.11 and I have never experienced a single 
crash. Only 2.15 crashes at map changes. I just restart it now and then 
to restore the settings screwed up by voters :)

Eric.

Troy Chinnery wrote:

> wow i keep hearing that the server is so laggy at high players and 
> stuff but i have had nothing but good experience with it..
>
> i run a lan in australia and use a (single) p4 2.4ghz w/ 1gb ram and 
> we had 35 players, the cpu usage peaked at ~65%, and used about ~160mb 
> ram... (only one player experienced crippling lag, so can't really 
> blame the server)
> i don't see what everybody is whining about, my server ran for 24 
> hours (length of lan) without crashing at all
>