Windows 2003

[Ryan]

Does anyone use Windows 2003 to run their servers off of? If so do you let windows assign handle the resources and spread the servers across the different cores or do you assign certain servers to to certain cores? Also does high priority vs normal priority play a factor when spreading servers across X amount of cores?

[dualcore1289]

Question #1 I tested both routes, and I have not seen a performance increase, so I let windows take care of that, and the high cpu, not unless you have alot of servers running on the server.

[pengy]

I use firedaemon and with the high performance servers i dedicate a separate core to them, also the priority increases stability of the fps by a little, but you wont notice the difference until you get 10+ people in a 100 tick 500 fps server.
From my other post
Ok from what i have tested (based on a 4 core system on server 2003) basically all this is doing is telling srcds which cores it can use and if one of the cores are overloaded it switches to a different one
#1 : Core 1
#2 : Core 2
#3 : Core 1,2
#4 : Core 3
#5 : Core 1,3
#6 : Core 2,3
#7 : Core 1,2,3
#8 : Core 4
#9 : Core 2,4
#10 : Core 1,4
#11 : Back to Core 1 (didnt test anything past 10)
Hmmm seemed to miss one, will check later and repost update one, core 3,4 missing

[ComputerHelper]

You do know SRCDS can only use 1 Core at a time right?

pengy Wrote:I use firedaemon and with the high performance servers i dedicate a separate core to them, also the priority increases stability of the fps by a little, but you wont notice the difference until you get 10+ people in a 100 tick 500 fps server.
From my other post
Ok from what i have tested (based on a 4 core system on server 2003) basically all this is doing is telling srcds which cores it can use and if one of the cores are overloaded it switches to a different one
#1 : Core 1
#2 : Core 2
#3 : Core 1,2
#4 : Core 3
#5 : Core 1,3
#6 : Core 2,3
#7 : Core 1,2,3
#8 : Core 4
#9 : Core 2,4
#10 : Core 1,4
#11 : Back to Core 1 (didnt test anything past 10)
Hmmm seemed to miss one, will check later and repost update one, core 3,4 missing

[dualcore1289]

Yes srcds is not multi threaded. So it will only use one core at a time. Also, pengy that's not always true, my servers fps is very stable with and without high cpu priority.

[pengy]

Well with multiple types of servers servers on a quadcore, i can see a difference, and yes i know that srcds can only use one core at a time.
From other post:
Ok, so all the affinity does is tell which cores it can use and which cores it cant, it still only uses one core for processing but if that core has too many applications it can change to a different core.

[Ryan]

i just used the fps thing from fragaholics and well... the dust2 pub 24 slots got a rating of fair and the had extreme fps drops. Is this because of 24 slots? or do you think the dual quad core box is overloaded? or do you think windows 2003 just sucks for running servers?

[FishCake]

I have run on Windows 2003 before I switched to 2008 and its perfectly fine for servers that run 512 FPS.

[blik]

[quote=ComputerHelper]
You do know SRCDS can only use 1 Core at a time right?

[quote=pengy]
Yes, you can still assign it to multiple processors. It just means it will use one of those cores you selected to run the process on at a specific moment in time.

I think you're confusing yourself with single threaded vs multithreaded.

[pengy]

Noooo, srcds will only use one core at a time, but it can switch which core it uses, so thats what the affinity is for, setting which one srcds can use when one core is overloaded

[Doggie52]

I've used 2003 before and it's worked fine for me, so the operating system is most likely not your problem!