(04-13-2012, 07:44 AM)Drocona Wrote: SRCDS can jump between cores to load balance, it never uses more than 1 core at the same time though.
It's multi threaded now. But the logical calculations still only utilize one thread. It makes threads for network data and a logical calculations. Although performance on a smaller server is unnoticeable and incredible small on larger servers. It depends on the core speed, if you've a very popular server on a slow dual core the network handling would be a lot better with two threads(one on each core). In other words if your CPU is not 100% loaded it shouldn't make any difference. But cloud hosting for SRCDS would not bring any performance benefit, since what mattes is not multi threaded, yet.
But as Drocona said SRCDS can jump between cores to improve its performance if said core is working on another program.