Well,
I haven't been on the forum for over a year
But there mucho credit I owe! We (
www.hellsgamers.com) have come a long way from where I was last I posted about meanloader over a year ago. We are still using (mEAn) Server Loader version 1.21.00 and we have it implemented across 5 servers and it works great.
So, this newest version allow to set affinity for each process and I find this very intersting. We have done a lot of performance testing on a Dual Xeon 2.8 w/HT enabled and disabled Windows 2003 system running for HL2 srcds.exe processes gametype CSS and in general terms performance takes a hit with HT disabled, so we have it turned on. What I'd like to know is if it would be benificial to assign each of the 4 srcds.exe processes to certain cpus, and if so which ones?
for a dual proc with HT enabled what is cpu 0, cpu 1, cpu 2, and cpu 3 ? 0=real first cpu and 1=virtual first cpu and 2=real second cpu and 3=virtual second cpu ???
I'd just like to know if say we should maybe assign srcds1 and srcds2 process id's both to use affinity mask 0001 (CPU 1) and srcds3 and srcds4 to use affinity mask 0010 (CPU2), remember this is on a dual proc with HT enabled.
Thanks in advance for any clairification on this!
Lex