06-25-2008, 12:41 AM
Again I'm back to ask the people on this forum to share their wisdom. This site has been a great resource since I've started hosting our Community's servers but there is something I haven't figured out how to do yet. What is the most efficient way to update multiple servers? Update nights were fine when we had 1 or 2 TF2 servers but now that I manage 6 servers with more on the way, update night becomes a little more difficult.
At the moment I'm downloading the update 6 times, which is obviously a terrible idea. It seems to take forever if you run multiple updates at once and if the servers are still online the player experience lag, it is not ping lag so it must be the I/O slowing down the system.
I have tried to download it once, strip out the cfg folder, addon folder, and the other server specific files, then copy it into the directories but that seems to go very slowly and if the servers are still only causes severe lag also.
I'm just wondering what some of the people on these forums do on patch night.
I am running Linux (CentOS) on a Q6600 with 4gig's of RAM.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
At the moment I'm downloading the update 6 times, which is obviously a terrible idea. It seems to take forever if you run multiple updates at once and if the servers are still online the player experience lag, it is not ping lag so it must be the I/O slowing down the system.
I have tried to download it once, strip out the cfg folder, addon folder, and the other server specific files, then copy it into the directories but that seems to go very slowly and if the servers are still only causes severe lag also.
I'm just wondering what some of the people on these forums do on patch night.
I am running Linux (CentOS) on a Q6600 with 4gig's of RAM.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.