Help setting up FreeBSD server?

[divVerent]

Post the traceroute anyway.

On your server... make sure HZ is set to 1000. Which FreeBSD are you using?

[charlesk]

Traceroute is below. It's somewhat strange (I've never seen those huge numbers before.

What's HZ?

This is "FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE".

By the way I tried another server and also had these bad lagging issues so I am wondering if maybe there is some other issue here. But one other person said he found it slow too, so I am not sure what's going on.


1 10 ms 7 ms 7 ms 73.195.28.1
2 8 ms 7 ms 9 ms ge-4-1-ur01.bennington.vt.boston.comcast.net [68
.86.236.45]
3 12 ms 11 ms 9 ms te-8-4-ar01.springfield.ma.boston.comcast.net [6
8.87.147.18]
4 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms po-11-ar01.chartford.ct.hartford.comcast.net [68
.87.146.26]
5 4294967192 ms 53 ms 16 ms 68.86.90.69
6 20 ms 13 ms 14 ms 64.213.77.217
7 43 ms 4294967219 ms 52 ms PAIR-NETWORKS.ge-3-2-0.ar2.cle1.gblx.net [
146.82.33.170]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 47 ms 54 ms 44 ms qs1072.pair.com [216.92.127.232]

[charlesk]

Hmm. No, I just went to the other "beginner" server and it was fine.. mine is sluggish and giving me clocks even though the ping is good. I have no idea why.

[ZyanKLee]

how high is the overall cpu-load? you told us nexuiz is using up to 15%, but how much is eaten up by other processes?

[charlesk]

There's pretty much always lots of idle time. Load averages are low:

% uptime
9:02PM up 465 days, 10:16, 2 users, load averages: 0.25, 0.44, 0.56

A pretty reliable server as you can see.

I just tried porting it all over to another server I have at the same company and it did the same thing.

I am almost certain that this is some sort of issue related to server priority, or something else with the hardware, not a net connectivity issue. But I'm still wondering if there is anything I can do in the Nexuiz server config to make it more efficient or use less resources or something.

[charlesk]

Okay right now it is using 5% CPU, there is 75-90% free, but it's still sluggish. I don't get it. *shrug*

[divVerent]

did you check your kern.hz? And which FreeBSD release is it?

[Daedalus]

i'd recommend updating FreeBSD to Version 6.2. Version 4.8 is from 2003....

[divVerent]

Oh sorry, you wrote it is 4.8.

4.8 by default has bad multitasking timing, could be a severe problem for games. You can try putting

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kern.hz="1000"

in /boot/loader.conf and rebooting your system. But remember - if you do something wrong, it may not come up again. I hope you have a way ready to restore loader.conf in case of failure (like a boot CD you can use to mount the hard drive and edit the file back).

[charlesk]

Well, just an update..

My web host is telling me they are concerned about security issues related to running this server... so I am dead in the water until they get back to me with more details over what it is they are concerned about.

Thanks.