Settings for 1000fps.

[ClanWoof]

Hello there, my new server I just setup is getting 985fps
I had me anothe guy and 10 bots I notice it drop down to 307fps twice in 30minutes of testing. Just wondering what I can do to fix this? I am running Ubuntu 8.04 on a Q6600. Now that I think of it. I never did taskset, would that maybe fix this?
Thanks for any help.
Jake.

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ClanWoof Wrote:Hello there, my new server I just setup is getting 985fps
I had me anothe guy and 10 bots I notice it drop down to 307fps twice in 30minutes of testing. Just wondering what I can do to fix this? I am running Ubuntu 8.04 on a Q6600. Now that I think of it. I never did taskset, would that maybe fix this?
Thanks for any help.
Jake.

I've read couple cases on this forum where server admins claim they get better results using taskset.

The theory (technical side) is that there's less overhead when the game server is ran only on one core. Otherwise the cores would need to exchange information all the time, which is inefficient.

I've made "Srcds monitoring plugin for Munin" [ http://forums.srcds.com/viewtopic/7026 ] which is good tool to see how much FPS is fluctuating - if it fluctuates. For example Ryan has accomplished very solid 1000 FPS (actually 990-992) if you take look at http://forums.srcds.com/viewpost/39541#pid39541.

[HBS|Ryan]

taskset has caused fps issues for me. I dont use it.

Did you recompile the kernel yourself or use the realtime kernel supplied by ubuntu?

[ClanWoof]

This was without recompiling it.
I found it dropped even more with taskset.

[HBS|Ryan]

ok try this tutorial:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=486424

even if you copy the .config file, some drivers probably wont included in the kernel compile. so if it doesnt work after compile, just load up the old kernel and check your logs and try again.

I highly suggest you follow this howto word for word first then try tweaking it once you get that to reboot

on my systems, i get better performance not editing the param.h file.
and on newer kernels the jiffies.h file already has the line you the turorial has you add, plus more.

good luck.

[ClanWoof]

Code:

apt-get install libc6-dev gcc binutils modutils kernel-package libncurses5-dev debianutils make

When I typed that in I got a message saying package modutils is not available, but is referred to by another package, and so on.
Kind of lost here.

[HBS|Ryan]

move forward, ubuntu 8 is probably upto date

[vigor]

Definitely recompile your kernel, preferably from source (kernel.org) so that you can get full control over the low level.