Optimizing Server for Multiple Players

[Jake]

Recently my 50 slots jailbreak server has started to lag as I get about 35+ players on it, I thought after reading several articles that lowering the tickrate would help, so I lowered it to 33. Pings continue to be high and players complain about lag. Is there any other configurations I can edit to optimize my server for high player usage and lower pings? Would lowering the tickrate to 16 help any?

[soja]

16 tick would be really low for jailbreak, and shouldn't be necessary.

How are you determining that the server is lagging?

What are you running the server on(shared hosting here, unmanaged/managed VDS, unmanaged/managed dedi)?

A friend of mine is currently running a 60 slot server on his VDS at 23 tickwith good performance, a 50 slot jail server should be fine at 33 tick.

[Jake]

Ran on a 4 core managed VDS. I guess it really isn't lagging that bad, a friend just told me that people's pings jumped from ~25 up to around 80+. I was curious asking if the tickrate actually worked, because I heard that valve took it out on source games, but then I read somewhere else that garry re-implemented it just for gmod.

[soja]

Ran on a 4 core managed VDS. I guess it really isn't lagging that bad, a friend just told me that people's pings jumped from ~25 up to around 80+. I was curious asking if the tickrate actually worked, because I heard that valve took it out on source games, but then I read somewhere else that garry re-implemented it just for gmod.

Tickrate works fine in GMOD. Remember lowering tickrate will increase pings. What CPU does your VDS have(you can check on the "Server health" tab of a game server on the VDS) and what is your daily peak usage?

[Jake]

Your server is currently being hosted on a 4 cores of a Dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 (Sandy Bridge-E 2.9ghz) node with 4 total processor cores and 4 gigabytes of RAM. The database code for this node is chicago-virtual-sleekgamers; its OS is Windows.

I saw nothing about max use, but when I check daily the max I usually see is about 75% on the cpu and down to 700 mb on RAM.

[soja]

Can you provide an IP so I can see first-hand the issues you are seeing?

[Jake]

I'm not sure if today we will get up to 35+ players, only sometimes it happens, but it's getting more and more frequent that I wanted to start making this a concern.

74.91.119.67

Currently I have the tick set to 16 which was probably a dumb choice, in the end it will probably be back to 50 or 66. I am very unfamiliar with tick and FPS tinkering so I wanted to be sure to know how it all worked and if any of it could make performance better.