does pingboost work?

[debil]

im adding -pingboost 3 to my server startup comand but i dont notice anything diffrent.

does it actually work on CSS linux servers?

[doggy93]

Yes it does.

[debil]

ok thnx. and is it recommended to use pingboost 3 if you got lots of hardware and bandwidth? or is there any reason i would want less then 3?

[doggy93]

Yes.
3 is the best value in my opinion, it improves ping a lot. I've also heard that it uses alot of rescources, but it really doesn't on my server.

[BehaartesEtwas]

srcds has no pingboost option!? it is only for hlds (e.g. cs 1.6).

[doggy93]

Haha that's true!
I'm using HLDS too, sorry my bad.

Acutally, I've found out that -pingboost was mainly used to "get around" the 100hz fps limit on older kernels.
On my machine I have to use a -pingboost value to get above 333 FPS for some reason.

[ENNEk]

According to the Valve wiki:

-pingboost <1/2/3> - Selects between optimized HLDS network code stack. Set this on 2 usually reduces latency toward 1ms without loss of activity input packets.