Hey all,

I'm a nub and need help understanding what I need to do here...

I'm naturally afraid of anything that is telling me to edit my kernel so I thought I should ask the masses and see what it is I should do.

#1. I am runnign a ded box with Red Hat Enterprise 4

#2. This box is used mainly for game servers... I am running a few and a VoIP program for communications and a mySQL server for recording statistics that a perl script drops in from parsing game server log files.

#3. There is a new game in town called Quake Wars and there is a recommendation in the readme of the game server install that says this:

"Kernel 2.6, configured for 1000Hz tick and other low latency settings"

Would anyone here be able to tell me this:

How do I know what the tickrate of my kernel currently is?

How would I go about changing the tick rate if I wanted to?

Would doing this hurt the mySQL server, VoIP servers, or other game servers?

I loosely understand the idea behind tick rates but I'm not near experienced enough to understand what future problems I might experience in changing this.

Any help and advice would be much appreciated...

Thanks in advance.

try running your game 1st ignoring those settings to see if you get any lags if you do then come back and someone (not me) can help

Supported tickrates on x86* archs are 100, 500 and 1000. Other values may work, but may not. Historically, x86 was at 100, but was moved to 1000 during the 2.5 development line. This increases overhead slightly, but helps timeslice accounting resolution and a host of other things. the way to change the tick rate is to change the HZ constant that is defined in include/<your-architechture>/param.h

to

Then, recompile your kernel.

I would not recommend doing this, but would be curious to hear how it goes if you try to do it. There are a number of better optimaztions you could make in the kernel, I believe.

Your HZ rate is almost invariably 1000 if you are on an x86* architecture. If not, you can find out by looking at the source for your built kernel at include/<your-architechture>/param.h

best of luck