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I'm going to be getting a server in the new year for cs:s running FreeBSD. I used to host a few servers running the old cs pre and post steam.
Anyone care to comment on using the 4.x line vs the 5.x line for srcds hosting?
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Or even your experience using one or the other. I used to use the 4.x line for the old cs and was fairly happy with it. Linux for a host os is not an option in my case, so looking for feedback from those using 4.x or 5.x.
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a non-*nix os is not an option due to security. Performance can take a back seat somewhat, as I wouldn't sleep at night.
My server ended up being FreeBSD 4.10. To get it to work I needed into NOT install the default linux emulation package (base-6) but linux-base-8 out of the ports tree.
After that, it all worked fairly well.
specs so far:
P4-2.8
512MB ram
16 player runs around 30-34% cpu when full.
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I should add that I have tweaked the HZ setting and a few other items to provide better performance at the cost of resource usuage. If I changed that back then my cpu numbers look closer to yours.
I only plan to run 2 servers on this machine, and for the same clan at that. If I where a game host it would be a slightly different story.
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Do you have linux compatibilty enabled and running?
starting 9/24/2006 if your problem has been solved please edit your first post and add [solved] to the begining of the title. Thanks.