Disabling unnecessary services

[Brandonjjon]

Is there a way you guys could tell me what services that are safe to disable on my VDS? The only thing I run on there is a Garry's Mod server. I'm trying to squeeze all the performance I can out of the dual core VDS.

Regards,

Brandon

[Edge100x]

Disabling services can help with security, but doesn't make much of a difference in terms of CPU usage or memory usage. The big one that I recommend disabling is "lanmanserver" (the "Server" service): http://www.nfoservers.com/forums/viewto ... =46&t=4746

[Brandonjjon]

I've done that already actually. Is there any other way to benefit performance wise? A buddy of mine has a quad core VDS with you guys and his ping is lower. Even with more players. His is usually around 20-30. Mine is 30-40. Not much of a difference I know. Just strange. Would a quad core vs dual core be the difference here? I wouldn't think that would have anything to do with the latency. Were both in your Dallas location.

[Edge100x]

Is your latency lower when you ping his server through the command line using "ping"? If so, then we'll need to take a closer look at your routing. If not, then you may need to look at server settings, such as tickrate/FPS and rates. Using a lower sv_maxupdaterate and sv_minupdaterate on a TF2 server would cause latencies to appear lower in-game, for instance, but performance wouldn't be as smooth.

[Brandonjjon]

I see. I might experiment with that. But no not though a cmd ping. Just looking at it through the in game server browser.