Server's fps will not go over 165~166 fps

[raabits]

The Server's FPS will not go over 166 fps on the server. It does stay rock steady No matter what I change, I can not get it to go past 165~166 fps. I would like to see it around 200 or 250 fps. Does anyone have any ideas what I am doing wrong?

The M/B is Tyan K8SD Pro with two opteron 270 and 8 GB of memory.

I have Gentoo OS with the following:

gcc = 3.4.4
ldd = 2.35
2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #6 SMP x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron processors 270

In the startup commandline I have: -tickrate 66 -fps_max 600
In the server.cfg file I have: sv_maxrate 15000 sv_maxupdaterate 30

[dhandrew]

If im not mistaken its +fps_max 600. If I am mistaken, make sure your kernel is set to 1000hz.

[raabits]

Problem solved. Thanks Changing the -fps_max to +fps_max solved the problem. I thought the kernel timer is already running at 1000hz in kernel 2.6 I did not check what it is set at.

Thanks again!

[janzzon]

How do you check if kernel is at 1000hz?
and if not how do you change it?

(can't get my server over 333 FPS, not even with fps_max 1000)

[illumination]

By default newer 2.6.x kernels have a hz value of 250.
They did this because they felt that 1000 was too high.
If you goto compile a new kernel you will find the hz freuency option in make menuconfig, or make xconfig.

[Hollanda]

Also: set tickrate to 100!