Much Better On The Cpu
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Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1811Members
Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1811Members
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I understand that NS is more complex than most mods, but you have to understand that if you need a 1.8+GHZ machine with 512 megs of ram dedicated to running just 1 server then the mod isnt going to catch on at all because servers will be <b>expensive</b>. Surely there has to be a memory leak or something somewhere? I dont see how it can be so complex it maxes out my 400 at 8 players <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'd make some coding suggestions but I have no idea how the server is coded <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> I've noticed the memory usage is constantly changing - probably to do with memory saving routines. Perhaps switch to using more fixed length variables as they're much nicer on the CPU although they use more RAM... I wouldnt mind the server usign more ram if it got the CPU usage down!
PS, what FPS are people getting on their servers?
95% -> 88%
w00t
dont run a server but today on a nearby 1.01 server I got pings of 4000+ plus. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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The network usage is actually quite a bit less than CS due to better optimization, so your connection speeds are not the issue. It's still CPU processing the resource model, 100x extra entities, and other aspects that a CS server doesn't have to track. There are some things you can do though:
1. Do not run HLTV proxy or allow HLTV connections
2. Knock your player count down by 2 slots (maybe do this after step 3, waiting on results).
3. Shorten your mp_timelimit to be 15 minutes. This will ensure that there are not too many round resets before there is a map cycle. There are some bugs which cause certain entitites to linger after a round resets which only a map change will clear. This is part of the reason a 2 hour game will cause more and more bogging on the CPU.
We're working with Valve to get some clues on some of the processing bottlenecks (some of which are HL engine issues at their core - it was never designed to do this!), so we should have yet another server patch in some time.
For my machine anyway, it really depends on the map that is currently being played. Eclipse, Nancy, etc seem to hang around the 10% - 15% mark, while Hera gets up over 50% for the entire round.
I don't use my machine for anything other than the server and firewall, so high CPU doesn't concern as much as it probably should. I'm not saying I wouldn't like to see it lower, however.