18 Slot 100 tick not holding the tickrate

[OwnagePranks]

The server i have is on a Dual xeon 2 GB ram, 500 FPS, and the tick drops to sometimes 40 at the beginning of the round, and very slowly climbs back to 100 (when over half the server dies)

this server is on a gigabit fiber connection, and the reg and everything else is amazing, and no choke more than 3.

It has mani on it, and is just a regular 24/7 Cal MOTW Pub.

Any ideas?

here is the server.cfg

hostname "24/7 CAL MAP OF THE WEEK|100Tic|#Lewler"
rcon_password "stoplookinghere"
exec banned.cfg
exec listip.cfg
mp_logdetail 0
mp_logmessages 0
mp_autokick 1
mp_autoteambalance 1
mp_c4timer 45
mp_flashlight 0
mp_footsteps 1
mp_forcechasecam 0
mp_freezetime 3
heartbeat
mp_buytime .3334
sv_maxunlag .5
mp_friendlyfire 1
mp_hostagepenalty 0
mp_limitteams 1
mp_roundtime 2
mp_tkpunish 0
sv_restartround 1
sv_maxspeed 320
sv_proxies 1
allow_spectators 90
mp_startmoney 800
mp_chattime 5
sv_allowupload 1
sv_allowdownload 1
sv_voiceenable 1
sv_alltalk 0
sv_voicequality 5
sv_voicecodec vaudio_speex
pausable 0
fps_max 512
decalfrequency 40
mp_falldamage 0
sv_aim 0
sv_cheats 0
sv_lan 0
sv_contact
sv_region 0
sv_downloads 1
mp_winlimit 0
sv_pure 0
mp_flashlight 1
sv_turbophysics 2
mp_timelimit 60
sv_contact "lewler.admins@gmail.com"
phys_pushscale 4
exec mani_server.cfg
zb_authhost cal
//sv_maxrounds 10
sv_pure 2
exec cplcss.cfg

there are like 4 servers on the whole box.

Could some of these commands be doing it? what can i add/remove from the server.cfg to increase performance?

thanks!!

[SOC_Doom]

sv_maxupdaterate 100
sv_minupdaterate 50
sv_maxcmdrate 100
sv_mincmdrate 50

[Muppet]

Any other servers running on this box?

Just sounds like the classic tickrate drop caused by high CPU usage.

Take a look at your CPU usage for the SRCDS process on round starts especially.

[SOC_Doom]

Why do you want 100 tick anyway? It takes twice as much CPU as 66 tick, and essentially has no difference.

[Spartanfrog]

Eh i can notice a difference between them but that again, people can notice the difference between 512 FPS and 1000 FPS...

[OwnagePranks]

Its a cal-ranked server. All cal players essentially, so thats why it is 100 Tick.

I read that 18 slots is the max srcds can support for 100 tick, but apparently not


So. Can nothing be done?

[Spartanfrog]

Try lowering the player slots and see.

[OwnagePranks]

I lowered it from like 24..

Any lower would be kind of retarded

[Spartanfrog]

I meant lower the slots to see if the tickrate slots keep on happening.

[OwnagePranks]

Ok, I will lower it to 16, I dont know what else I can do if it still happens, is there ANY boosting that will help, what about -pingboost , i wonder if that will do anything.

The CPU on the box isnt 100, but still tick drops, and its annoying.

I notice there is no performance decrease, it would be coool if there was a mod that said the server was running at a constant 100 tick in net graph that way I wouldn't have to deal with the annoying complaints