need some help sorting out performance issue

[chris999989]

Hi.

My problem is that my servers lag very often when about 10 people play and some complain about high ping.

Server specs:

Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ (2900 MHz)
8 GB DDR2 800MHz RAM

100/100 mb line

I run 2 servers. One war server and an surf server.

The servers run at about 2% of the cpu when idle and about 5-10% when used.

War server:
16 slots
100 tick
sv_maxrate 20000
sv_minrate 15000
sv_maxupdaterate 100
sv_minupdaterate 10
fps_max 300

Surf server:
20 slots
66 tick
sv_maxrate 20000
sv_minrate 15000
sv_maxupdaterate 66
sv_minupdaterate 10
fps_max 300


I'm not a pro at server settings at would really like some tips on how to improve server performance and get rid of lag and ping spikes.

Thanks in advance for any help

[janne]

The ping problem is probably related to your internet service provider. (change to a better one if possible)
The lag could be kernel/hardware/isp related. If you have a router test bypassing it and see what happens.

The cvars on your servers shouldn't create any lag, but they aren't optimal either.
I recommend for the war server you change to sv_maxrate 35000 and sv_minupdaterate 70.
For the pub server, to allow sv_minupdaterate 10 is kind of low... force it at least somewhere above 30.

btw. Why not forcing the sv_max/mincmdrate's too? (set them the same as the updaterates)

[chris999989]

the net is not a problem.

My server is hosted by ww.server.lu


As for the rates settings. I've changed them to:

sv_minrate 10000
sv_maxrate 30000
decalfrequency 10
sv_maxupdaterate 101
sv_minupdaterate 35
sv_MinCmdRate 35
sv_MaxCmdRate 101


It seems to work good.

Now the only thing i would want is lower latenzy, but i don't think that is possible.