[SOLVED] TF2: 5 players = 100% CPU

[sergee]

Please help!

Few weeks ago i hit a performance problem, it was 1 or 2 days before "119th update". There was small update, claimed to improve server performance for linux. After that update my server can't handle 5 and more players. It was pretty old server (prescott 2.8ghz).

This weekend i installed a new server, (Q9300 @ 2.50GHz, 4Gb Ram), fresh CentOS 5.5 (1000HZ default kernel) - fresh srcds - without any modules. Same picture - 6 players eats 100% CPU and can't play.

Here is ny args for srcds:

./srcds_linux -game tf +ip 109.74.143.10 -pingboost 1 -heapsize 2048 -pidfile srcds.pid +fps_max 300 -ticrate 66 +map pl_goldrush

BTW, on empty server FPS jumps between 248 and 166. Here is my server.cfg: http://pastebin.com/K20CVB7v

What am i doing wrong? why my server can't handle more then 6 players? Please help/

[helio]

you can take out

Code:

-pingboost 1 -heapsize 2048

not sure if heapsize is a vaild command for the servers but in valve games its done in KB so thats 2 MB so that might be a problem

[ilinx]

try taking out heapsize and pingboost from the start command, as helio said

[sergee]

Ooops, i thought that this would be 2GB, will give it a try today, thanks!

[sergee]

The problem was with the heapsize, after i change it to 1048576 (1 Gb) everything runs like a charm.

Seems that this variable wasn't working from january till may. Because i always had 2048 as value, and i started to have problems only near 119th update.

Once again, everybody thanks!

[Terrorkarotte]

Why use it anyway? I run my Servers without that command and having no issues at all.