[ut2004] ut2004 stuttering

Alex Boag-Munroe boagenator at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 12:35:05 EDT 2011


The guy having problems isn't using RAID.

On 1 June 2011 17:29, Joel Wiramu Pauling <joel at aenertia.net> wrote:

> Sounds to me like you have chunk misalignment issues and your system is
> being starved for IO, or you have a disk in the array that is bad and
> causing bitmap re-calculations to happen all the time. Also many drives
> (cheap ones, i.e "green" or "itellisense") will park the heads way more
> often, leading to way high cycling counts, run smart tools over your drives
> and see how high your counts are....
>
> Take down your raid array and test is basically my advice.
>
> I stopped using raid 5 for these and many other reasons which often would
> cause inexplicable system jarring; after being stalwart user for many years
> and dealing with the problems I stopped. Raid10 is hassle free and better
> solutions IME.
>
>
>
>
> On 2 June 2011 04:18, Alex Boag-Munroe <boagenator at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I do use software raid 5, why do you ask?  That shouldn't be relevant
>> really the game isn't exactly IO intensive and I seriously can't see the gun
>> showing/not showing making any difference whatsoever to a RAID issue.
>>
>>
>> On 1 June 2011 17:05, Joel Wiramu Pauling <joel at aenertia.net> wrote:
>>
>>> but you are running software raid 5 or similar?
>>>
>>> On 2 June 2011 03:12, kristjan <kristjan.ugrin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I did that, however I did cut out many maps, since game size is huge.
>>>> Still stuttering - I've moved my monitor so I can see HDD lamp, the disk
>>>> activity is completely
>>>> unrelated to stuttering - so it's not because the game is waiting for
>>>> I/O
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:41:58 +0200, Joel Wiramu Pauling <
>>>> joel at aenertia.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Try making a temporary ram disk if you have enough ram, copy over the
>>>>> ut2004
>>>>> dir and running from the ram disk. This will eliminate io issues.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have had problems (espeically with software raid5 or similar) setups
>>>>> where
>>>>> the system gets starved of IO.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1 June 2011 10:07, kristjan <kristjan.ugrin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  On previous less powerfull system it was performing a bit worse than
>>>>>> 32-bit
>>>>>> version,
>>>>>> so I thought it's not that good.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've tried now with 64-bit version - same.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:03:27 +0200, Alex Boag-Munroe <
>>>>>> boagenator at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Why not the 64 bit version?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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