Dedicated Server problem - Linux

Balmark

<div class="IPBDescription">Multi cores??</div>Hey,

I've a bit of a kick ass server, quad core running rhel 5.4 ..

I ran through the setup for running a dedicated server for linux, having to run wine to get one running... but looking at performance, it seems to only be using 1 core??
Does anyone know how I can, if possible, fix this?

Cpu0 : 1.0%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.7%id, 2.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 2.7%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.3%id, 1.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 0.7%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 95.7%us, 4.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
13232 ns 25 0 2069m 636m 13m R 102.7 15.7 135:17.01 Server.exe
13235 ns 15 0 5240 2644 656 S 3.0 0.1 8:07.82 wineserver

so with about 10 players on ... it starts detioriating and gets worse as the game goes on

endar

Same with native windows environments, it will only use 1 core. I think it does something trivial on other cores, but really only 1 core will be taxed.

Balmark

This is a pretty serious problem ;)
I know alot of 'client' apps use 1 core due to gfx .. but the server shouldnt have the same constraints

Balmark

I might try run VMWare on it and give that a blast..

falc

I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 with kvm on my dedicated linux root and its also almost using only one core (in the host- and windows-environment) with 2 Cores assigned to the VM.

Either way, the server definitely still needs much love by the devs. :D

spellman23

I think they care more about getting the single core system working better than splitting all their code and worrying about sync issues.

Balmark

That's madness... server will only utilize 1 core even on a windows machine??

Installed windows7 on vm here now, at the moment its dling NS2 through steam at 1.2mb/s .. hoping it'll be nicer than wine anyhow