Suboptimal performance

[Zontar]

I have an Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit system running 1GB of RAM and an Athlon 64 3700+.

I've attempted to run a game server from this machine, and performance is suboptimal at best, even when I'm the only one in there (this is the only scenario I was able to test.) Here is the speedtest result:



I adjusted the tickrate to 66 when launching. The rest of my settings are as follows:

sv_maxupdaterate 100
sv_minupdaterate 20
sv_maxrate 6553.6

The CPU or RAM never seem to top out according to the system monitor. Given the speedtest results, this doesn't make too much sense. Is there a setting I have incorrect?

[BehaartesEtwas]

a lot of information missing to help you...


sv_maxrate is too low though, use 30000 at least. sv_maxupdaterate makes no sense on tick 66. which game do you run? cs:s is limited to tick 66 now...

[Zontar]

Ah, of course. I'm attempting to host the Sears Tower map in Half-Life 2 Deathmatch. All ports are forwarded correctly and the server shows up in the list...there's just rather slight yet very annoying lag. I'm plugged into a WRT54G.

The startup command I'm using is ./srcds_run -console -game hl2mp -tickrate 66 -ip 192.168.1.(my machine) -port 27015 -maxplayers 7 +map dm_SearsTower_v2

[realchamp]

How many slots are you hosting?

[BehaartesEtwas]

do you host the server at home? does it also lag if you connect directly via LAN? are the server fps stable (maybe you can try making a fps-meter measurement)?

@realchamp: maxplayers 7 in his starup line, but it lags when he is alone already ;-)

[realchamp]

You shall set maxrate higher. Your internet connection should be capable of holding 7 players with rate at 30000.
As Behaartes said too