1.04 ? Linux Friendly?
DPCobra
Join Date: 2002-12-01 Member: 10345Members
Join Date: 2002-12-01 Member: 10345Members
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Because of the high CPU usage, Jolt.co.uk (for example) only rents NS on dedicated machines, and that cost a minimum of 215€ a month (about the same in $). How many clans can afford this?
No, not right... I want a server with low pings for me and for *all* my clanmates and guests... It's not easy to get that with an DSL type connection. BTW, most broadband connections here in ?urope are assimetric, so most ISP's offer upload rates not enough to run a server. (2048/300,512/256, 256/128, etc...)
p4 2 gig
512 rdram
600 gig bandwidth per month
Linux box
It pings right between 60 - 90 for me depending on the workload. Not "Holy Carp, this ping is god" ping or anything, but pretty darn above average all-in-all.
I'm not going to plug anything unless I'm asked about it, but there are ways to go about renting a cheap place to run a ns server or any other type for that matter.
The DSL connection is maybe three additional hops, all of which are low latency. My connection to the next hop up is 2-3ms average. The difference between me having my machine here and in their data center isn't worth mentioning. What matters is the ISP's connection to the net itself. Most of the people who hit my servers do get low pings (<90, most <50).
As for uploads speeds operative word is most. The same exists here. However I purposely set out to find an ISP that had symetric speeds and flat out asked them when I signed up over the phone, "I run my own mail server, FTP server, web server and game servers. Does your policy prevent this." I got an equally candid answer, "As long as it is nothing illegal we don't care what you do with the bandwidth. If it is illegal we will shut you down." It is possible with a little searching for a lot of people. Most people just don't want to put forth the effort.
My site will be offering game server hosting soon, and we will possibly be renting NS servers.. we may be able to go fairly lower in price than that because we will be running high end machines.
Keep checking out site for updates as we will be announcing it very soon.
<a href='http://www.gamer-insight.com' target='_blank'>http://www.gamer-insight.com</a>
I thought this already worked. I've been running an HLTV proxy on my server for a while and nothing seriously b0rked out. Then again, I never tested the proxy to see if I could actually spectate <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'm sure with all the posts and comments about the linux server. They are well aware of the scope of the problem and will be fixxing it in the next patch. But I'm sure thats just one thing on they're plate. There main focus at this level of development is the game itself. And honestly, linux optimization is an easy fix.
The only ppl who seem tobe truly annoyed about it, are all these "rent servers from me!" ppl and theyre shameless advertisement posts. I'm not happy with the linux levels. But I'm willing to give them a chance to fix it. As the game is at least playable and supported on linux servers. I will save my true gripes and bitching till after the next patch. If nothings done to address teh problem. But until then, give the dev team there due. As they are, and have been, doing a great job.
Keep up the good work dev team!
-Fix Current Linux issues (Motion tracking not working is one)
-Change team balancing again (not sure what Flay is doing exactly)
-Fix Observer mode (text and death messages not comeing through)
-Finish HLTV (half the code is in... and half the entities render so far)
-Fix VAC support (Hes working with VALVe on this, so far its intended for 1.1)
As for Linux utilization problems, Flay has been working on one ever since NS was released, one solution was to "cache" the entities, this so far has definately gotten load down but at a great consequence of buildings disappearing, etc. He was been working with VALVe to possibly try getting this to work. The other surefire way is to update his linux SDK to work witht he latest glibc's and compile properly with GCC. Once he does that, itll be one hell of a load drop due to the newer glibc's that alreayd have CPu optimizations and other OS features. Currently as I hear it, his SDK is outdated and the status of him updating it is unconfirmed.
As for balance changes, I do not know of any that are planned and if I did, I definately wouldnt list them. Last thing he needs is a flame-war about new changes (which he already recieves flak for) so I guess ill leave it at that.
That is my list, whats changed recently I do not know anymore. No, nano isint a beta server anymore so even if I had the list I wouldnt give a list of next patch details anyway. Flays greatest priority always has been CPU utilization, so i guess just hang in there linux admins, hes still working on something.
Hope that answers any suspicions there <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
HLTV does work, but its incomplete right now.
I'm extremely happy with v1.03 thus far. It has made being an admin MUCH easier than with v1.02.
The bug fixes were simply a godsend.
BTW: You're not a brown noser if you really mean it, and don't won't or expect anything in return.