config line : cpucount exthread for i7 980x

[havena 2]

whats the great config line for a i7 980x 6core 12 thread?

thx

best regards,

havena

[havena 2]

up up ?

[Skydive (DayZ) 71]

up up ?

What I have done for mine is to set CPU for 6 and the exThreads for 6 as well. I have experimented with this a bit to find the "sweet spot" in performance tuning. (This is still ongoing)

When I have left the exThreads set at the default 1 for "autodetect" I have found that the memory seems to run away and consumes a huge amount of memory for no good reason. when I specify exThreads for just 6 or 7, this problem does not exist.

[havena 2]

cpu 6 or 12?

[howichrgelazer 69]

exThread needs to be at 0 if you're doing cpucount 1. If cpucount is greater than 1, exthread should be set to 1. Anything higher for exThread is a waste for a server. Setting it to 1 allows for threaded file operations, the other options are for clients to help with rendering (which again, is pointless for a server).

As for cpucount, you can use 6, but honestly I doubt you'll see any difference if you were to use let's say, 3 or 4. If you have the bandwidth, I would try running 2 servers with cpucount 3 on each.

Otherwise just set it to cpucount 4 and use the other cores to host other game servers outside of arma. :)

EDIT: Just to clarify, cpucount is for physical cores, not HT cores. So the max you could use is 6 afaik. Arma 2 is not really multithreaded in a sense. The main server operations will only be on one core. The other operations use use the additional threads. This is why it's important to have a beefy CPU with a high clockspeed and IPC.