tcngs Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 I am running a dual 2.8 xeon 64 bit with 800mhz frontside bus wil 2m L2 cache, I only have 1gb of ram in it right now. My question is some times if I am copying files or doing something on the server, the games servers will start to lag very badly. I check the cpu % and it is very low usualy between 10 and 15 %, what else can be causeing the lag if the cpu is running so low. Could it be the ram, not having enough in there? I am bumping it up to 2gb next week. Also is there any good resource monitoring programs out there that any one would recomend? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monk Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 IDE/SATA? Or SCSI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcngs Posted September 24, 2006 Author Share Posted September 24, 2006 IDE 10,000 rpm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECF Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 If the games are using the virtual RAM "eg. virtual memory/disk" due to too little RAM then disk operations may pose a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcngs Posted September 25, 2006 Author Share Posted September 25, 2006 so more ram might help the problem, it is using DDR2 ECC, I eventualy will have 4gb in that box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalyse Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 More RAM is always good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monk Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 FWIW: IDE disks do not support disconnected writes, which is a significant performance bottleneck when you are writing to the disk; only disconnected reads are supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcngs Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 Can you elaborate more on disconnected writes, or point me to a site that has a good definition of it. Also does any have any good tools for monitoring system resources, latency, etc. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcngs Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 Also you recommend SCSI or SATA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECF Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 SCSI is recommended, but can be more costly than SATA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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