Server Usage Question

[disconnect81]

Hello,

I was just wondering if there is anything I can do regarding the PF usagge on my dedicated server. I run a few css servers, my cpu usages is around 50% but my PF usage is at like 3.0GB (and i think it has 4 available). can I increase this somewhere? Also is it normal that these servers chew through RAM. I have 2GB and it says i have like 200MB free right now.

Thanks

Disconnect

[EdwardTobia]

are your servers pingboosted? -pingboost 3 uses quite alot of memory and CPU resources.

[Drocona]

wow what kind of servers are you running? and for how long have they been running?

They shouldn't use that much memory at any time..

[disconnect81]

The arent -pingboosted

The machine was actually rebooted about 3 days ago for windows updates. The box has six servers running on it. I have yet to see the cpu usage go above 60%

-CSS Deathmatch mod 24 slots
-GunGame Deathmatch mod 20 slots
-DODS 30 slots
-CSS Server 20 slots
-CSS Server 20 slots
-CSS Server 24 Slots

The gun game, dod, and css death match server, are typically busy.. so that's about 70 clients. The other 3 css servers arent always busy, the most ive seen from those would be about another 30 - 40 clients. IVe had 100+ people connected to the machine though and the cpu usage looked normal. Its my ram that seems to be getting chewed up.
I realise the gun game and deathmatch mods use quite a bit, but this seems a little extreme. I was just wonder if there are any settings i can try out for the game servers or anything else ican do on the dedicated server. Perhaps even a variable in the launch command line. *shrug*

Thanks

[flashstar]

Gungame is always very slow so that may be the culprit. I would try not running the gungame and try to see if that solves your problem.

[disconnect81]

Unfortunatly, i have to runa gungame sever lol, my community would flip out without it hahah. I like it too. Although, the deathmatch gungame might be doin it, ill try without the deathmatch running and see how it goes. i cant see that one change making a big difference though, ill report back.

[Drocona]

deathmatch and gungame are most definately the porblem, they use craploads of ram

Best to do would be to schedule a daily reboot at a time when almost no-one is ingame at all. It should fix the ram issue and improve performance on your servers.

[disconnect81]

The schedualed reboot sounds okay with me, but there is a few problems with this.

1) what do i use to schedual this, which utility do i use, i assume window2003 has something built in eh?
2) how do i get the servers to restart automatically? I have serverdoc installed but the way i have it, i have shortcuts to the servers in my startup folder, which means then only start when i login to the server... not when it starts up. Im not sure how other people go about doing this either.

[furiousV]

A quick answer to question 1: Windows Task Scheduler. Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Schedule Tasks

2: Sorry, I'm a Linux person. Though since Windows is user-friendly it shouldn't be too hard to figure out as its wizard-driven.