RE: GLUG: Re: Re: Linux Promotion Idea

[Gary Behenna <GaryB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please accept my apologies if this is the incorrect forum for this type of
"plug", but this may be of interest to you. I have managed to secure the
distributorship for Linux games for the South African Linux community. For a
complete list of games and associated prices, please go to
http://linuxplay.freeyellow.com This site is currently under construction,
but will give you all the info. you need on games such as Quake III, Decent
3 and others. contact details can be found on the site or I can be contacted
on 082 601 6413. I am currently awaiting the first shipment from the states,
therefore, as yet do not have stock, but please call with any questions or
requests.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone the very best for
2001 and lets make this the year that gaming on the Linux platform becomes
mainstream, thus allowing the younger generation to become exposed to the
magic of Linux.

Best regards,
Gary Behenna  

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Doller [mailto:rjd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 8:30 AM
To: Glug
Subject: Re: GLUG: Re: Re: Linux Promotion Idea


Talking about this, we recently held our HalfLife : Counerstrike 
tournament, and it went very well (except for a few power cuts).  The 
thing that impressed me, though, was that my little (Celeron 400 + 
128MB RAM) Linux server routed almost all the traffic for the day (+-40 
people, +-9AM to +-7PM  less +-1.5 hours) AND hosted two of the 
servers.  And the processor utilisation averaged around 35%.  lowest 
was around 18%, peak was 54%, but it did spike to 99% twice for about 
4-5 seconds.

I could have gotten a third (and possible a fourth) server running on the 
same machine if I had some extra RAM in it (RAM was almost fully 
used, I had about 10-20MB free (that INCLUDES cache)).

At the start of the day, before the tournament began, I had about 15 
people connected and playing (processor utilisation was about 10%, 
funnily enough.  Leads me to believe that routing requires a fair deal of 
processing.  Maybe the "optimise as router" setting inthe kernel will 
change this?).  This is interesting because the research I did before the 
time said a similar Windows machine (C400 + 128MB RAM dedicated) 
could host a 12 player game.  My machine was averaging 16 players  
AND all the routing (all three of the switches were plugged into the 
server) and only using about 35% processor...

In any case,

Cheers,

Jason Doller

On 14 Dec 2000, at 14:47, Rudi ahlers wrote:

> the youth are the ppl who use computers :)
> 5FM is also VERY popular, so it would be worth the while
> How about getting Q III Arena on linux, some mp3's, some office stuff, and
> maybe nice good looking KDE2.0 But want some one to try and crash it?
Hehe,
> that can be easy sometimes, so have a look at the services you install, to
> make sure they are bug-free.
> 
> 
> Rudi Ahlers
> 
> Unix specialist &  Web Developer
> Bonzai Web Design
> http://www.bonzai.org.za
> 
> 
> ---
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe glug" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx If you have a
> problem unsubscribing, please mail owner-glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
SuSE - German engineering where you need it most on your PC.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I don't buy stuff from spammers, and because I live in South Africa
not the US I don't care about your right to free speech in my email.
Sending adverts to my address is pointless and will get your
site (a) onto our "ignore this site's email forever" list PDQ
and (b) a lot of complaints.

Don't bother.
---
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe glug" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx If you have a
problem unsubscribing, please mail owner-glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx