[mohaa] Missleading pings?

[Eric Koldeweij]

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
> >