GTR tress test - Monday evening 16/5/05

famin · Post by **famin** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:33 am

as suggested in prev post can we get 15+ drivers in GTR tonight to check it out?

sign up here if youre willing and able to log in tonight about 8:30pm.

Im in for a start.

Note that its version 1.4!!!

GTR v1.4 - 203.114.130.15
Ventrilo 2.1.4 - 203.114.130.17

Sulley · Post by **Sulley** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:37 am

I hope to be there.

Hoped on briefly last night but noone was there, just as well as then noone witnessed me falling off in a Saleen, which is way too fast for this ole boy to handle

Post by **Inspector** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:41 am

Stockcar League racing on this server tonight at 8.30pm for 1 hour.

famin · Post by **famin** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:03 am

so Inspector, are you saying it cant be tonight?

or that there will be contention?

if not tonight then please state the best night for this week.

or a later or earlier time?

Post by **Inspector** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:11 am

No sorry, I can't because there is Stockcar League racing on at the same time. Somehow I doubt that server will be effected by having two servers full of people at the same time, by either power or bandwidth.

I do know that previously Riven has had to shut down other servers on league nights because of the lag they caused but with the new server I doubt this will be a problem. I think the stress test is for the server software itself rather than hardware or connection?

p.s. - Monday was always IL2 night with lots of people on, is this still the case?

famin · Post by **famin** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:35 am

OK, then the thread is still relevant... we want to see ow many CAN attend to see if it would be worthwhile as a test of the capabilities of the server.

odonohuesp · Post by **odonohuesp** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:44 am

The Nascar Hardcore league was supposred to start tonite too.

Sulley · Post by **Sulley** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:49 am

Hardcore schedule says 23 May

Skuzzlebutt · Post by **Skuzzlebutt** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:58 am

I may be able to make it tonight for an hour or so. Although it is Nip Tuck night...

odonohuesp · Post by **odonohuesp** » Mon May 16, 2005 12:00 pm

Sulley wrote:Hardcore schedule says 23 May

Just found out Ron pushed it back a week. It was originally scheduled to start tonite.

Danman · Post by **Danman** » Mon May 16, 2005 12:14 pm

Can GTR handle dial up? (Or rather can dial up handle GTR

)

I may be around after 8.30-9 ish

famin · Post by **famin** » Mon May 16, 2005 12:26 pm

well we want everyone to 'in effect' simulate dial up by connecting at 56k speed anyway so feel free danman.

Riven · Post by **Riven** » Mon May 16, 2005 1:05 pm

the issue with actual 56k modems versus the 56k data rate, is that the 56k modem users will be ping at around 150 to 300 at the minimum.. people in ADSL or better bust using 56k data rates will ping from 150ms and down.. wireless will be around 20.

What happens with the average pings for everyone when a 56k modem user joins, is that they all go up. It'd be worth seeing what happens though.. however if the lag for everyone is very bad, then I suggest the 56k modem users drop out, and we see if it settles back down. If that happens, then we might need to rule that you need ADSL or better to race in a league.

famin · Post by **famin** » Mon May 16, 2005 1:26 pm

nicely explained riven...

and that folks is called...

testing!

Agent X20 · Post by **Agent X20** » Mon May 16, 2005 4:04 pm

The GTR dedicated server will consume (it seems) 50% CPU, and more as the load goes up. Riven you might want to watch things if you've got the Nascar stuff running concurrently.

Riven · Post by **Riven** » Mon May 16, 2005 4:06 pm

Agent X20 wrote:The GTR dedicated server will consume (it seems) 50% CPU, and more as the load goes up. Riven you might want to watch things if you've got the Nascar stuff running concurrently.

It's been using 0.0% while no one is the server.

Agent X20 · Post by **Agent X20** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:47 pm

Riven wrote: It's been using 0.0% while no one is the server.

Ok that's good. I've seen a load of reports concerned with the high CPU loading and a tendency not to drop back to 0 after people leave.

Monza · Post by **Monza** » Mon May 16, 2005 8:11 pm

I'll be there 8:30 ish

Riven · Post by **Riven** » Mon May 16, 2005 8:48 pm

Agent X20 wrote:
Riven wrote: It's been using 0.0% while no one is the server.
Ok that's good. I've seen a load of reports concerned with the high CPU loading and a tendency not to drop back to 0 after people leave.

1 player on, its at about 18-23%
6 players on and its still 18-23%

Riven · Post by **Riven** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:00 pm

9 players on, and it wont go any higher than 25%

Things are looking good so far

YeeHarr · Post by **YeeHarr** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:38 pm

Damn. Server won't let me on because you can only join practice sessions. Never mind

Skuzzlebutt · Post by **Skuzzlebutt** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:33 pm

Well that looked rock solid with 9 of us on there. Hopefully it'll do just as well with twice or three times that number.

It's amazing what a little human competition can do for your lap times too, shaved 3 seconds off my GT rank improving both my Barcelona and Magny Cours bests.

Good even skills too which should make for some good racing, X20 is obviously a haXor though...

Agent X20 · Post by **Agent X20** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:41 pm

Server looks good riven - real good.

Had one brief stint of stutter - but a log fixed it.

One oddity is that it shows next session from Practice 1 as "Practice 2" so of course I'm not quite expecting 10 seconds to race. Frantic setup loading ensues - no setup loaded and so that was race one over before it began.

Then after some good lappage at Magny... race starts and thinking I was clever I'd loaded the setup in advance. Only I got the wrong one (575!) this time. Totally puzzled how that happened so missed out on both races.

Sigh. Just one of those nights I think....

Think I took some time of me GTRank though!

Monza · Post by **Monza** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:49 pm

For Agent's benefit:

Riven wrote:OK, just installed GTR onto server.

Server *should* be up on 203.114.130.15
Set for 50min prac, then 10min race.
All standard GTRank tracks on atm.

Let me know if you have any issues. We should get a few on and see how shes handles.

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:59 pm

sounds promising

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so nobody had any drop outs or discos etc ?