pingbooster?

[essentrix.net]

Are there any -pingboost options for the source server yet? Usually we run our cstrike servers with -pingboost 3 and sys_ticrate 2000 but I wasnt sure if the syntax has changed. Does anyone know? Thanks!

Christopher

[axed]

all i know, is that there ticrate is not in yet, but is supposed to be on the way. i dong konw anything on pingboost... but from what ive read in variuos source dedicated server forums, no one has mentioned it. so my bet would be its not available.

[Towneh]

"-pingboost <value>" (1 to 3) should be working, at least my linux server has not returned any errors concerning that command

[DoSuul]

What happens ?

[FiRe]

All the pingboost modes attempt to reduce the latency caused by the server. The default implementation adds around 20msec to each players ping (under linux).

Mode "1" reduces this by using a different wait method (a select() call). This method reduces the latency to 10msec.

Mode "2" uses a similar but slightly different method (and alarm() type call). Again, the result it 10msec worth of latency being added. NOTE that this method has the potential to hang a server in certain (terminal) situations. If anyone has used this mode recently (not the first test we did!) and it hangs please speak up

Mode "3" minimises the latency to the minimum possible level by processing a frame EVERY time a packet arrives. This causes the lowest possible latency, but can also cause extreme CPU usages (it does a complete frame for every packet, with each player sending lots of packets per second and 30 players this adds up to insane amounts of frames). Use this mode at your own risk, it will consume all available CPU, don't complain that cstrike uses too much CPU if you use this mode In a future release this mode will be tweaked to let the admin balance latencies agains CPU usage (by processing a frame every N packets).

[cj_]

I did a strings dump of the binaries, and "pingboost" is not there, while the other command line options are. It just doesn't throw an error if you include it, but it's not going to do anything for you.

[Ap0kalipSe]

i added -pingboost 1 to my srcds_run today and the server fps went from 32 to 190 so it must do something :S

[FiRe]

pingboost should lower server fps not raise it, if anything. It should lower players pings and raise CPU usage. Somethings wrong there

[Ap0kalipSe]

err pingboost has always raised fps for me.

[cryotek]

pingboost 3 will make the server examine EVERY packet and frame it recieves, thus giving you a bit less latency. and increasing CPU usage

[natnakub]

pingbooster 3 make mt server good but time is very fast !! why that

[Mike]

Congratulations, you just megabumped a 6 year old thread.

[loopyman]

The thread is probably older than him?