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Homelan Server Gentoo Questions

by Christopher Lohman · in ThinkTanks · 02/11/2004 (7:30 am) · 3 replies

Quig et all,

Can you tell me which kernel the homelan gentoo servers are running?

Can you think of anything that was done to their server (IE kernel modules and such) to optimize them for running the TT dedicated?

(I ask because I was running RH9 on this server and was getting sub 30 pings when I ran a TT ded server; and now on gentoo [exact same hardware] I can't get under 150 pings.)
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Torque Owner John Quigley
#1
02/11/2004 (7:25 pm)
I think its running 2.4.19-gentoo or something. But I can't check at the moment because it crashed.

Thats a pretty serious ping problem; I'd be surprised if the kernel alone caused it.

Torque Owner Christopher Lohman
#2
02/12/2004 (8:26 am)
Hmm, just regular gentoo kernel. I have tried game/gentoo/and vanilla kernels and all three result in the same high pings.

Nothing changed except the OS on this: same hardware/bandwidth; so it must be something like the nic drivers etc.

Bummer, I was hoping you would say it was using a kernel that I hadn't tried and that this kernel would be the magic solution. Silly me for hoping there might be an easy solution...

Torque Owner John Quigley
#3
02/13/2004 (3:39 pm)
The dedicated server sleeps in the platform::process() function so that it doesn't consume 100% cpu. It is only supposed to sleep for a few milliseconds, but perhaps it is sleeping for longer for some reason. If it sleeps for too long that will affect pings. You might try checking that function to see how long it is sleeping for.