hi there,
i have a server on my home machine that runs great, but bandwidth is always a problem. i decided to try setting one up on my webserver, running freebsd 6.3. unfortunately it's a celeron, but i thought i might be able to at least get a small server to run on it and it'd work okay.
after much tweaking, i can have a 10 slot 33 tick CS:S server running on it without bots (with any bots at all, it all seems to go to hell) and everything goes pretty smooth for the most part. the occasional slowdown at the start of a round doesn't seem to bother us.
when i try to run a tf2 dedicated server however, at 3 people i start to experience very very bad slowdown. srcds's process on cs:s runs as srcds_i686, whereas on tf2 it runs as srcds_i486 - am i doing something wrong there?
as far as i know i've made all the same tweaks and i just can't get it any higher than that. i'd be content with 8 slots or so, two just isn't worth bothering though.
any suggestions other than "ditch the celeron" (i fully intend to later, but if cpu is the unsolvable problem i'll just run one from my home box and put up with limited bandwidth for now) and uneducated suggestions to modify my kernel would be greatly appreciated.
i have a server on my home machine that runs great, but bandwidth is always a problem. i decided to try setting one up on my webserver, running freebsd 6.3. unfortunately it's a celeron, but i thought i might be able to at least get a small server to run on it and it'd work okay.
after much tweaking, i can have a 10 slot 33 tick CS:S server running on it without bots (with any bots at all, it all seems to go to hell) and everything goes pretty smooth for the most part. the occasional slowdown at the start of a round doesn't seem to bother us.
when i try to run a tf2 dedicated server however, at 3 people i start to experience very very bad slowdown. srcds's process on cs:s runs as srcds_i686, whereas on tf2 it runs as srcds_i486 - am i doing something wrong there?
as far as i know i've made all the same tweaks and i just can't get it any higher than that. i'd be content with 8 slots or so, two just isn't worth bothering though.
any suggestions other than "ditch the celeron" (i fully intend to later, but if cpu is the unsolvable problem i'll just run one from my home box and put up with limited bandwidth for now) and uneducated suggestions to modify my kernel would be greatly appreciated.