Please help on setting up a Linux dedicated box

[Hi I am John Smith]

Hi everyone, I have questions about hosting multiple instances of SRCDS on a dedicated box.

- CPU is Q9300
- OS is CentOS
- (The rest of the spec are pretty standard, so I am not posting them)

I am planning to host three instances of TF2 with it, and here is what I am going to do:

- Create three user accounts for each instance of TF2
- Use taskset to affinity those three instances of TF2, each to a different core

Regarding taskset, I searched this forum, and found a good suggestion from a member named Svuppe (link), which I am going to try. Yet, I am new to Linux, and to set CPU 0 as default for all other processes, and 1 - 3 for each TF2 instances, how should I do it?

Also, I read this thread (link) and would like to ask:

(In case Steam forum is down, the above thread suggests turning off HT, as it would cause performance issues)
- Better to turn off HT, ture?
- So for the Q9300, real cores would be (0, 2, 4, 6), and HT would be (1, 3, 5, 7)?

Last thing (for now ), can any of the experienced admins let me know what other things that I need to do? (Besides recompling the kernel. Maybe in the future, but not now for me)

Your help is much appreciated!

P.S.
Sorry for being lazy and not trying to figure them out by doing my own trial and error, but doing so I would probably be wasting my hosting money of the first month.

[DiSTANT]

(10-30-2009, 08:55 AM)Hi I am John Smith Wrote:  Hi everyone, I have questions about hosting multiple instances of SRCDS on a dedicated box.

- CPU is Q9300
- OS is CentOS
- (The rest of the spec are pretty standard, so I am not posting them)

I am planning to host three instances of TF2 with it, and here is what I am going to do:

- Create three user accounts for each instance of TF2
- Use taskset to affinity those three instances of TF2, each to a different core

Regarding taskset, I searched this forum, and found a good suggestion from a member named Svuppe (link), which I am going to try. Yet, I am new to Linux, and to set CPU 0 as default for all other processes, and 1 - 3 for each TF2 instances, how should I do it?

Also, I read this thread (link) and would like to ask:

(In case Steam forum is down, the above thread suggests turning off HT, as it would cause performance issues)
- Better to turn off HT, ture?
- So for the Q9300, real cores would be (0, 2, 4, 6), and HT would be (1, 3, 5, 7)?

Last thing (for now ), can any of the experienced admins let me know what other things that I need to do? (Besides recompling the kernel. Maybe in the future, but not now for me)

Your help is much appreciated!

P.S.
Sorry for being lazy and not trying to figure them out by doing my own trial and error, but doing so I would probably be wasting my hosting money of the first month.

I'll help you out. Either send me a PM on the forum or reach me on IRC gamesurge #sourcekernel (nick DiSTANT)

[Hi I am John Smith]

Hi DiSTANT,

Thanks for offering me a helping hand. I really appreciate it.

As I got my unmanaged dedicated box already, I cannot let it sitting idle, so instead of spending my time on doing the research, I am seeking help from the experienced. With that said, I hope you don't mind that I am taking the easy route.

I tried but wasn't able to PM you. Anyway, when you have time, please help me on:

1)
Again, regarding the suggestion from Svuppe (link), what command lines I should use for this setup:
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- Set core 0 as default
- Set TF2 #1 on core 1, as the startup of the process
- Set TF2 #2 on core 2, as the startup of the process
- Set TF2 #3 on core 3, as the startup of the process
-------------------

2)
I remember reading very often (yet can't find it right now), about some sort of fps boosting app. Is it still around? Should I use it?


Thanks again!!

[JOHNNYCRE8]

Hey "Hi I am John Smith" :]

2) there is a srcds fps boosting app... which's only a loop makin the windows kernel working properly for srcds .. so its WINDOWS only ;]

no use for u on ur centos box ;]

[Hi I am John Smith]

(11-04-2009, 12:10 AM)JOHNNYCRE8 Wrote:  there is a srcds fps boosting app...

Thank you for your reply.

Are you talking about the "FPSBoost" by Viper (link)?

I think I have seen something for Linux before. I will double-check my old notes then. In the meantime I will try the -pingboost (link) option, and see how much that alone will offer.

1)
Got a new question this time.

For my unmanaged dedicated box, besides a set of public IPs, I have also been given one private IP, what should I do with it?
(For my home SRCDS, I only use private IP, when doing port forwarding...)


Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

P.S.
Still hoping someone here can help me with my questions in the 1st post. Must be some guru here that can help out. (I have PM'ed DiSTANT, but he probably doesn't have time. )

[SBT]

You don't need the private IP, just ignore it.