Sudden lag problem on my dedicated server. Please help me.

[madsherlock]

Hello people. I have a lag problem on my gmod9 (a game using the source engine) dedicated server (srcds console thingy).

My computer is 2.6GHz and 1GB Ram and HyperThreading.

I had my gmod9 server running on my computer, and there were no problems, when I played on it myself from the same computer. (There was, with my old computer, wich didn't have HyperThreading).
It was running lag free and 5 clients at the server. (Wich is max, so I can keep an eye on them )

But then, somewhere around the middle of January my server got these weird "lag waves". It just started laggin in the middle of the game for 3-7 minutes and then it would stop for 5 minutes and then all over.
I had made no changes to my server, so I thought it had something to do with some steam update... But I dunno how to fix that kinda stuff..
So now I need some programs or tips on how to make my computer performance better.

I have these fixes now:
srcdsfpsbooster (Im not sure if this is any good)
I set the priority of my srcds process to high or AboveNormal (This does not help)

I have changed a value in the registry database: HKEY_LOKAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl
In there, I made some DWORD value with the name IRQ8Priority. I modified it and put "1" into the Value Data box. (I am not sure, what this does.. Maybe something with that priority of srcds.exe?)



But anyways, it still laggs. Right now, Im defragmenting my computer..

And uhh... When I start the server it takes 44MB ram. Then after some time it goes up to 300MB ram, wich my poor little computer can't take.. :'(

I also tried getting the server to run on my dad's Linux Fedora thingy, but that didn't work well... And I doubt it would work, since it has even worse performance than my PC....


So please, if you know how to fix my lag problem, please tell me how.

[Hollanda]

host from another computer, simpel. Gmod is pretty cpu intensive and playing the game yourself means 100% cpu load at all time.

[madsherlock]

Hollanda Wrote:host from another computer, simpel. Gmod is pretty cpu intensive and playing the game yourself means 100% cpu load at all time.

Well, your wrong a bout that... I found out that I had a logging lua file, and when I deleted it, everything was back to normal..

[Hollanda]

Then don't ask here if you think you know it better.