Ping

AlteredMind

Iv noticed a huge ping difference when say its 6 v 6. Mine jumped from 50 to 190 and it seems to be staying at that. I was just wonderying if this is an issue in the game itself and if anyone els is having this problem. My cs and dod servers seem to be pinging great so im stumped as to what can cause this. Again any help is appreciated :]



Thank You

cracker_jackmac

09:57:48 up 2 days, 18:12, 3 users, load average: 0.43, 0.49, 0.44
58 processes: 53 sleeping, 3 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 25.8% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 73.5% idle
Mem: 900580K total, 896012K used, 4568K free, 20004K buffers
Swap: 381012K total, 980K used, 380032K free, 616384K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
13603 halflife 15 0 101M 101M 6100 R 45.1 11.5 651:33 hlds


Its probably your CPU, run top or perfmon on your server and check the usage. Thats my top for map eclispe with a full server, so check your CPU%, then your RAM usage, then Your swap/page ing notice how i only have 980K used. So it may not be just your CPU. Alsp don't forget to read the Post at the top of the forum called Server Performance Tips


Edit : The reason its only been up for 2 days is because well, they dont' have hot-swap processors yet so i had to shut it down <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> to swap procs with my desktop (1.33Ghz Tbird)

GoleX

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
10499 admin 20 -10 117M 117M 6196 R < 95.4 23.8 220:47 hlds

Hehe, yeah I got the same problem. At full server my CPU usage shot up (eventually to 99.9%). I think its because I've been doing alot of optimization of pings at the cost of higher CPU usage... the CPU upgrade coming should alleviate most of this.

cracker_jackmac

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U don't need it. As stated before this mod uses LESS bandwidth than CS does so its easier on your pipe. I decided to let the CPU handle more particles and such and and let the plugin modify thier cl_rate (? i get that right?) so the server doesn't have to process so many packets. Not sure if it works better this way or not.

Oh well. 1.33Ghz Tbird isn't really enough to run this mod. hehe. Soon (aka 6 months+) i shall get a XP 2000+

that shoudl help, but i'll have to get more ram too. lol

Vadakill

Am I reading that right? Is that nearly 1Gig of RAM? Egads man!

GoleX

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U don't need it. As stated before this mod uses LESS bandwidth than CS does so its easier on your pipe.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Maybe I said that wrong... I do realize the problem is my CPU, cos my bandwith is plenty. So what I've done is just optimized it so the HLDS server gets all the available CPU on my box, sometimes maxing my util etc. to try shave off some ping. The ping stays under 100 until later in the game with more entities etc. then it climbs to around 400 before the end of the round. Hopefully when my CPU upgrade is completed, it'll be able to stay under 300 the whole time. (Also 1.02 will help with this I'm sure)

AlteredMind

If its any help here is my boxes specs:
p4 2ghz
1gig of ddr ram
60gig WD 72000rpm

Thies machines run cs and ut2k server just fine, but when I try to run a 18player NS server it jumpes into the 400range. If you know any good settings (maxrate..ect) for this mod I would appreciate the information. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->


Thank You

Hukka

<!--QuoteBegin--AlteredMind+Nov 9 2002, 05:24 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AlteredMind @ Nov 9 2002, 05:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->If its any help here is my boxes specs:
p4 2ghz
1gig of ddr ram
60gig WD 72000rpm

Thies machines run cs and ut2k server just fine, but when I try to run a 18player NS server it jumpes into the 400range.  If you know any good settings (maxrate..ect) for this mod I would appreciate the information. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->


Thank You<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
My boxes specs:
Amd 2000 XP+
512 ddr ram
80gig scsi-2

(this is my 2nd server)

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AlteredMind

I was reading threw the forums and iv seen that some people were able to lower there pings, I was wonderying if anyone knows some good settings that might help me. Or is the next server side update gonna help?