Celeron Northwood 2.66 CS:S Server - folding preformance

[Dan Derrig]

Can my celeron northwood do very much useful folding? It's at 20x133 and it is going to run a CS server. Would it cause much lag if priority was set to zero? ATM, I'm not sure how much of a computer's capacity to work a Source server uses. Should I run folding on my computer with the source server, or not fold on it? If it detracts too much from either folding or server-ing, I won't do it.

[AlabamaCajun]

You can control the priority of the services so I don't see a real problem with folding without advanced and bigpackets turned off. I don't know how big your library is but if you have a fair amount of history, it takes a nice little chunk of memory for CSS to calc the deltas for the check ins. Try it on timeless for a while and monitor it to see what it does. It would be nice it that were an HT model then the only issue would be memory. You should also have a gig or more in it.

[Dan Derrig]

Hmm, I might be able to get a northwood p4/ HT to fold on. I've been trying to get one for a while now, they are becoming rare and I only have like $20. Especially with the 533mhz FSB. Would an 845E chipset support HT?
Thanks,
Dan

[LandShark]

Hi Dan,

I would think it will be fine as long as you have enough memory in the server, especially if you are getting a P4 means you will most likely folding QMD. depends how many people you are planning to server, I would say at least 1 gig, and 2gig would be the sweet spot. also, your server might not be serving 24/7 if it's your own private clan playground. of course, the best way is to test playing on your server with a few guys (8+) while doing folding and see if there's any performance hit on the serving.

oh, tks for the info and I'll look into it and most likely will server my own CS:S (and folding of course) too.

;)

[Dan Derrig]

I'm gonna try and test it out with the Celeron CPU. If that can't handle it, I'll add 256 more mb of RAM and try and get a pentium 4 for it. That should work for sure - a GB of RAM and a 2.6+ghz P4 should handle both. I really can't afford to get 2 GB.
LandShark - np man, have fun!

[stratcatprowlin]

Keep as many bots off the server as possible or it will definitely lag.
I have a dedicated 2.66 Celly D with a gig of ram and If I run more than ten bots it lags in big firefights without folding So I cant see folding helping it.Good luck.

[Dan Derrig]

Well, I don't have a Celeron D.. lol, crappy northwood celeron. Those are the worst.
Now, I had no bots and no folding and it lagged a bit for people. IDK, they seem to be messing with me but w/e.

[stratcatprowlin]

What is your upload speed?Do you have your rates setup correctly?
Chances are usually a home connection will lag before you get lag from the server itself.

[Dan Derrig]

Yeah, I have 896kbps upload. I think it's the connection - also, I ran the server with 20 bots over my LAN and it didn't make a difference. Never lagged for me, it has to be the connection.