Hi! I'm currently porting the dedicated server for our game from win32 to linux. After fighting my way until it compiles and run... i get extremly slow response from the linux server. If i connect through LAN, i get like 700~900 ping. The game is setuped like this : - The main program is a console app waiting for input to interact with the game server - The game logic itself is spawned in a thread In win32, with default thread parameters, everything works perfectly. But i suspect that i'm not setting up my pthread accordingly for linux. Here is how i create the thread : pthread_attr_t threadAttr; //attribute for parameting the linux thread pthread_attr_init(&threadAttr); pthread_attr_setinheritsched(&threadAttr, PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED); pthread_attr_setstacksize(&threadAttr,4000); //reserving a 4 meg stack for the game pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(&threadAttr, SCHED_RR); sched_param schedparam; schedparam.sched_priority = 99; //if i put 100 here the thread doesnt work pthread_attr_setschedparam(&threadAttr, &schedparam); if(pthread_create( &threadID, &threadAttr,(PTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)pFuncter, pParam)) { perror("Thread Creation"); return false; } i even tried to run this as root to make sure it wasnt something interfering with my user rights. Thanks for any suggestions

I would suggest that before you start twiddling the advanced-usgae settings you try just using the default thread parameters. Chances are good that the system will do a better job of scheduling if you let it.

On the other hand, ping times usually have nothing to do with server response time but rather measure network latency. Do you get the same response time problems if you;re running the client and server on the same machine through the loopback?

--smw