How much source servers on this machine?

[Lucas]

Dual Processor Dual Core Opteron 270 - 2.0GHz - 4 x 1MB cache

4 GB DDRI Registered 400

250GB SATA II

10 Mbps Uplink

Windows Server 2003 Standard R2 (32 bit)

 

How much 100Tick 500FPS boosted servers can I run there?

 

I'm planning on at least running two 18 slots servers with 100Tick and one 24 slots with 66Tick. I would maybe like to add a 4th. How would all these perform if I changed them all to 100Tick with 500FPS?

 

Help is appreciated.

[ECF]

That server should run those just fine.

[Lucas]

So it would run 4 servers with 100Tick and 500FPS just fine?

[ECF]

It should. That's a good sized machine. You will actually have 8 virtual CPUs since it is Dual CPU and Dual Core.

 

The only thing you may want to upgrade is the 10 Mbps Uplink to a 100 Mbps card.

[Lucas]

Where do you see the virtual CPUs? I can see on the task manager just 4 CPUs (which are the physical). I'll be upgrading it as soon as possible.

[Daersun]

ECF is on crack, its not HT, it has 4 cores.

 

Just make sure that each server doesnt max a single core, HL is single threaded.

[Lucas]

How do you boost them to 500fps? Also, I've seen there is an app that lets you set each srcds.exe to one core/cpu so each one runs on it's own.

[ECF]

ECF is on crack, its not HT, it has 4 cores.

 

Ooops, guess I should put the crack pipe away. Jordan is correct. 4 Cores.

 

However the server will still handle the load.

[ECF]

Also, if you plan to run TCAdmin you can use the "Start on CPU 0" option in the game config. This compensates fro HL's lack of multithreading, and will start the process on CPU 0, then spread it across all CPUs.

[Monk]

HL doesn't have this bug anymore..

[ECF]

When was this changed? We have had clients report it as little as a month ago.

[Monk]

Few months back.. make sure you're at release 23 (it's 23 or 24) for the core engine.

[ECF]

Need to read the HLDs mailing list more often I guess. Thanks for the info Gary.

[cengroba]

I had this issue on one of my servers, all the game servers were trying to run off cpu 0 and the other three cores were only around 2%. Doing what ECF said fixed the problem. Whats strange is that it only did it on that server, my other ones are working perfect.

[ECF]

Could be that the problem may be specific to hardware? We have also seen some people that it doesn't happen to while it happens to others.

[Monk]

i think windows also sources interrupts off of cpu0, if i remember correctly..

[adamnp]

The multithreading, that just applies to hlds not srcds if im correct so far...or am I wrong?

 

[ECF]

It was prone to both back when it was a problem. But according to Gary, they have fixed it. I however have not tested either yet.