From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754839AbXFPJCd (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:02:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753244AbXFPJCZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:02:25 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:3015 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753031AbXFPJCY (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:02:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:02:19 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Nobin Mathew Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Servers comparison with Windows 2003 servers for Gaming Message-ID: <20070616090217.GV943@1wt.eu> References: <8d6898730706150712u182f5af1h2d92030adf16d022@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8d6898730706150712u182f5af1h2d92030adf16d022@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 07:42:50PM +0530, Nobin Mathew wrote: > I am trying to move my Game server from windows to Linux. > > Is this a good idea? > How much better performance i will get? > > Can i fine tune the 2.6.20 kernel to get better performance? > What all areas i can do this fine tuning? > > what other things i can do to get better performance? All this depends a lot on your workload. If you're CPU-bound, maybe it will not change anything. If you're doing a lot of disk accesses, the choice of the filesystem will be far more important than any config option you might change. If you're doing a lot of network traffic, you might consider not loading every unneeded network subsystem (ipv6, netfilter, bridging, ...) to save CPU cycles, though it does not seem to be your problem given your other mail indicating a 100 Mbps NIC. If you don't know what limits your application, it is possible that you will first run it with "standard" parameters (defaults from your distro), and later reinstall it differently once you have measured it usage. Willy