[mohaa] (fixed) 2.15 Spearhead server.

[caretaker at hellahivemind.com]

Correct me if I'm wrong (and it's all together possible) but, having
Spearhead running on a quad or a dualie for that matter, probably doesn't
make a big difference to the peformance of the game. I'm sure that the code
most likely is not optimized to utilize SMP support to that extent. Also,
when you say that you're running gigaspeed to the net, you're refering to
your internal speed to the router, but what are running from there? T1, OC3,
etc? The reason I ask, is that many people assume it's the game code that's
bad, when come to find out things like line saturation can be the problem as
well. I'm not saying that's what it is in this case, but if you could
provide some peak server stats regarding your connection and server
resources, it will benefit everyone on the list. I have had a similar
problem with high player counts, and found that limiting the frag count to
under 50 had a fairly significant positive impact on performance. Maybe
that's a place to start to just as a proof of concept. Hope it helps.

[^DD^]Hellboy
www.devil-dogs.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matrix" <Matrix at ServerXtreme.com>
To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 2:28 PM
Subject: RE: [mohaa] (fixed) 2.15 Spearhead server.


Please enlighten me on this....

Are there settings for MOHAA and/or MOHSH that will allow the server to
not run like crap after 20 clients???

All of our Linux servers are running on Dual to Quad Xeon 2.4 GHz
systems with 2 Gig of ECC Registered PC2100 DDR memory and also running
RAID... IO is defiantly not a problem, but after 20 clients, the pings
just go to hell... lol...  Also our servers run on Gigabit connections
to the net. :)  Something is just not right, the game runs smooth as
heck at 20 or below clients, but above that... YUK!

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

--Matrix