Can't achieve Over 333 FPS? After doing the 1000 FPS Kernel Guide?

[Flonn]

I had my host do the guide for the kernel and when I run stats after server was restarted, it still shows 333 FPS. Did they do something wrong?

Specs

Dual Xeon 5405
4GB
2000GB BW
250GB HDD
CentOS 5

[css]

You're basically saying you don't know what somebody did and you don't have 1000 FPS. Do you believe somebody's going to solve this mystery for you?

[ClanWoof]

Try typing +fps_max 1000 or 0 in the command line see if that works for you.

[Flonn]

+fps_max 0 was in command line.

It was stuck at 333FPS. I read on the Steam forum on the server performance and config that 64Bit Linux OS can't go over 333FPS without special settings etc.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5946591&postcount=181

I found that post and had my host recompile it and now it gets a constant 500.25 FPS. Is there anything I can do to achieve higher? I am fine with 500 FPS but was wanting to get to 1000FPS. 1000 FPS was only going to be used for match servers.

[BrutalGoerge]

i've ran 3 servers at the same time, all 100 tick css servers.

1 was at 333 fps all the time, the other at 500, and the other around 990 or so

They all were just the same in-game in my opinion. I think telling people that your server is 1000fps is just more or less of a placebo effect. If not, i can't tell the difference =\

[DiSTANT]

Run uname -a and make sure it is showing your new kernel in use.

[vigor]

64-bit OS will certainly do over 333 FPS.

As DiSTANT said do a uname -a

Make sure it's loading the kernel you think it's loading. It's possible when you configured grub you saved it to run once and rebooted since then, effectively putting it back into it's original kernel.

If that's the case just edit your grub.conf (commonly in /etc/grub.con or /etc/grub/grub.con), unless of course you're using the lilo boot loader

[Flonn]

It says this. I know when I first got the server it said 2.6.18 or something like that.

2.6.22 #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 28 01:39:19 CS T 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[vigor]

Assuming they installed via source code and stick to the norm change to /usr/src

You should see the kernel directory there for which they used. You can then hop into that directory and check out the config they applied to the kernel build. If it's missing you can simply change it and rebuild, just do a...

make clean
make menuconfig (Select processor type + features, change freq to 1000)
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install

grub
savedefault --default=0 --once
quit/exit

Reboot and test.

If you get an error on menuconfig assuming you're running a RH based system do a yum install ncurses-devel

Alternatively if you prefer to start from scratch: http://russthompson.me/node/9

[css]

Vigor, nice of you not saying anything about rendering the whole system unbootable. It might scare off him doing a kernel update for the first time. It's better not to say this because then he'd never try, right?

PS. I bet you have never read README in the kernel sources. There are installation instrucions there too, you know.

[vigor]

^ Its definitely possible to render it unbootable

That's why we tell grub to load it once, therefore on another reboot it brings back the previous default kernel

[Flonn]

Can someone help me setup a new user so they can use SmartFTP or any other client to see game directory without setting it as SSH FTP?

[DiSTANT]

Flonn Wrote:Can someone help me setup a new user so they can use SmartFTP or any other client to see game directory without setting it as SSH FTP?

What type of FTP server are you running?