Reboundq3 0 Posted April 1, 2021 Greetings people of the A3 forums I've got a server (Dell Poweredge R710) with enough cores and ram for a small business I've allocated 12 Cores, and 64 GB of ram, but i keep running into a problem with low CPU utilization, for example when i do a stess test in the Ubuntu 18.04 i get over 90% utilization (running in ESXI, so its a VM) but when i start arma3server and load something like Vindicta i get 8.23% utilization. I've read something about a headless client that that should fix stuff, but i've got the feeling im doing something wrong in the first place. Here is a screenshot (http://prntscr.com/111n7fi) Any Ideas? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hannibal2210 1 Posted April 2, 2021 What CPUs are they running?, I know with R710s they are quite old now and use the Xeon E , L and X 5000 series right?. I would imagine if you have a cpu core count of 6 or 8 it may show a lower utilisation as it will probably only use 4 cores maximum (1 core heavily). The % given is of the entire set of cores available across multiple cpus. One of our servers uses two Xeon E5-2690 V2 cpus and due to that being 20 cores total, arma would only use a small percentage of the total cpu time. Apart from this I would try to look at the server TPS (use '#monitor 1' when logged in as admin ingame) and if it is in the 40s I would say everything is just fine. I would also look at player count and ai count to explain a lower demand on the CPU. You could possibly try using the 64-bit version of arma3server but I doubt it'll make much difference. Remember arma doesn't care about core count as such, infinitely more important is clock speed and IPC when it comes to performance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
