Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 08:20:11 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <rohrbach@nacamar.net> To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quake2 and UDP recvspace Message-ID: <19990226082011.B7551@nacamar.net> In-Reply-To: <199902260437.UAA09666@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org>; from Dave Hayes on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 08:37:30PM -0800 References: <199902260437.UAA09666@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org>
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what boy are you running that qukaeserver on and with what effective bandwidth and how many simultaneous players connected? is it quake or quake2? i got one server here running quakeworld on 2.2.8-r and a qw/quake2 box running on 3.0-current as of july 13 1997 (ouch!) in linux emulation (ouch2!) ;-) but it runs perfectly. /k Dave Hayes (dave@jetcafe.org) @ Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 08:37:30PM -0800: > I'm runing Quake2 on FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE as a dedicated server. > Quake2 with many players basically slams the UDP layer of my > machine, for those of you who don't already know. :) > > Netstat -s reports: > > udp: > 110301027 datagrams received > 0 with incomplete header > 30 with bad data length field > 1377 with bad checksum > >> 29882 dropped due to no socket > 651167 broadcast/multicast datagrams dropped due to no socket > >> 15494 dropped due to full socket buffers > 0 not for hashed pcb > 109603077 delivered > 36475854 datagrams output > > Now I have my sysctl variables set up like so: > > net.inet.udp.checksum: 1 > net.inet.udp.maxdgram: 9216 > net.inet.udp.recvspace: 246723 > > Note that the recvspace is basically as big as I can make it. I > noticed a decrease in the "dropped due to full socket buffers" when I > increased the recvspace from the default 16K value. > > I know that the max value is in the kernel somewhere. My questions > are "where?" and "what will this screw up if I change it?". > ------ > Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org > Keep Usenet Free - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet > >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< > > For hatred can never put an end to hatred, love alone can. This is an > unalterable law. -The Dhammapada > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- "The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom." -- W. Blake http://www.nacamar.de - http://www.nacamar.net - http://www.webmonster.de http://www.apache.de - http://www.quakeforum.de - finger rohrbach@nacamar.net PGP Key fingerprint = F9 A0 DF 91 74 07 6A 1C 5F 0B E0 6B 4D CD 8C 44 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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