Hi Everyone.

I own a server company, www.wiredservers.com. I've been toying with pe servers putting them up to test and messing with the configs a bit. I'm running the new version of HLDS with metamod and adminmod. I had the server set to 18 people for a while and it was just killing the cpu. I'm running off windows 2k server and the specs are:
2.66 p4
512mb of ram
15krpm scsi drive

People were noting about the entities in some other forums. I believe the high cpu utilization is due to that. As with NS servers (which creates entitties as the game goes) the more entities the higher the cpu usage. I've seen some poeple post 3% cpu usage on full 14 player servers and there is no way that is possible. At this point I havn't tested linux at all, but I'd like to get this problem solved. I think it would be beneficial for the mod if the designers next release focused on server side aspects, cutting down the cpu usage (the bw wasn't to bad). I also work for a gaming league which would like to support PE, but right now there arent enough people playing it, mostly due to lack of servers in the US.

My 2 pieces

Great mod guys, keep it up. The HLTV demos are gonna rock

When we ran a PE server (currently switched over to TS) with a player max of 18 the highest CPU utilization it around 26% full server, never peaked over 30% full server during high activity. Memory utilization, minimal, and HDD access only during map loading.

Server specs:
Athlon 2100+
512 megs DDR
Windows 2003 server (stripped)
ATA 100 HDD
Fractional T-1 768k/768k

We did run HLDS.exe and HL.exe in Windows 2000 compatibility mode which resolved alot of our issues that we had.

you need to see what else is running on your windows box. I havnt really seen too many servers being hosted on linux, espically for this mod(if any). Also are you running server or advanced server? I setup a 12 person server on the cable in my house.. It got full awfully fast, but it didnt get above 35% untill it was full and the map was within 5-10 minutes to change, then it jumped to 43~.

Xp2000
512 ddr
Win2k Advanced Server