Dual CPU's + 2GB Ram

[gaz]

Hey,

I had the pleasure of installing gentoo on a beast of a machine last week.. for the purpose of game servers for WALAN

Dual P4 2.4Ghz Xeon with H/T (2 physical cpus and 2 virtual)
SATA RAID 0
and 2GB of Ram

now.. since this was a significant step up from my normal machines that I configure kernels for.. the kernel ran and detected multiple cpus so I thought all was good..

until people started to run servers...

6 Half-life servers and 2 Wolf:ET servers .. the games started to lag out

upon further inspection... only 900mb of ram was detected and cpu usage was WAY above normal..

is there some things I should do while configuring the kernel next time the lan occurs?

[niki]

Hi

1. For the memory try to enable high memory support in Kernel.


2. I had abnormal cpu usage with my SATA Dirve. It worked in PIO mode(-> SLOW & high CPU load).
Use hdparm to see if the dirve works in DMA mode.