ivan_cro writes...

cresuso has said he is running the server in a VPS, running a home server does not mean high CPU usage either.

.KiLL3R. writes...

Yeh exactly...this high cpu usage is a mod issue. And if i ran a server on my comp it'll be more powerful than on that VPS. (But thats not an hardware issue anyway)

Maybe CPU usage is higher because you have invaild models in mod?
By saying invaild models i mean that some files from models are missing lmaybe you have xmodel without xmodelparts or xmodelsurfs. This may use CPU because CoD is searching for these files.
CPU usage may be higher if you have more players on server that sends too much commands to players, so if your code is too long, messed up and causes too many functions to run this can be issue.

And you should know that getentarray() with more than 64 entities in array may cause script runtime error that slow down cpu. In my advice you should start home server with +set developer 1 command to see if you have errors in script then just fix them.
edited on Aug. 29, 2010 05:47 pm by BraX

BraX writes...

Game assets are only loaded once when the map loads, if there is a problem with a model then it doesn't get loaded, if the model is then requested some time later by a script then it will produce the "model has not been precached" error.

BraX writes...

The game can use getentarray and loop well over 64 times before it slows down.

Hmm, Kill3r tried to help me yesterday....and we came up to put original zom mod.

I did it, i started renaming iwds to unknown extension (so game doesn't recognize them). I kept only paulus zom mod, and removed also all maps. I tried on a stock map, and cpu usage was exactly same (with or without weapon mod, with or without custom maps, with or without zom mod).

Kill3er told me he's running a cod4 server on a single core 2.4Ghz. And im running this cod2 server on single core 2.5Ghz with 1Gb of ram and 1Gb of swap...

So what is wrong ? Maybe cfg ? (im using same cfg for a while now).

Here are two cfgs if you wanna check :

Server.cfg : http://pastebin.com/fFtYC7ap

Zom.cfg : http://pastebin.com/Z89fUEFQ

I don't see what to check anymore :s

I changed today host again. Now i'm running server on linux and cpu usage is same as before...

I'll try to put only paulus mod and see what happens again.

Ok i put original paulus mod again without anything else (no extra mod) and cpu is 6-9% with 8 players oO

What is wrong here ?? Maybe the files i'm using to run server ? where can i download cod2 files ?

I launched my server with dm...on a custom map and cpu never goes above 3% with 7-8 people.

So problem is with Paulus mod i guess.

What different zom mod can i use for 1.0 ?

Can someone explain me how can i do this :

I got aaaZ which has size of ~370Kb. Now i removed some files from this iwd and when i put on server, people download that iwd but once file is downloaded, they get disconnected while connecting to server....

Whats wrong ?

I tried it on local, its working fine (no error). But when i upload, i get disconnected after file is downloaded (Same for others).

So how do i use iwd which has smaller size than old one (now its 300Kb instead of 370Kb).

Thanks in advance.

up....(please answer to last post if possible, i need solution)