Howto run 2 instances of NWNX2 / NWNX4

[Tempest]

Thanks Disco, that is great information. Thanks for taking the time to list it for me!

I dont think it will matter for my 2nd instance as I wont advertise it to Game Spy. The PC's will only be able to get into it via transitions from the 1st instance.

"T"

[Disco]

I am testing this myself as well now. The CPU affinity settings are completely unreliable when used with multiple servers. The servers seem to push eachother around.

[Tempest]

you know its funny, you have to be careful what you read. I have seen posts now that it does work and it doesnt. Since I have a quad core machine, I am going to see if I can assign the first instace to one core and the second instance to the other....

[Disco]

Well, it doesn't work for me. If I use one instance of nwnx+nwnserver all goes well. If I use two the results are random once the second server starts. It doesn't matter if I use a 2 core or 4 core machine. The two core is a dual opteron server running 64bit Windows XP, the other one a Phenom 9500 running normal windows XP.

[Disco]

Looked a bit better into this...

I use the dual core machine now. I have one server running on core 1, as ordered. When I start a new server (according to the settings on core 2) the first server switches to core 2, and the new one uses both cores.

This happens all the time.

[Tempest]

Now doesnt that suck? That makes things useless doesnt it?

[Disco]

1.69 has new affinity switches, which may help. Will test today.

[Disco]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/05/28/getting_more_bang_out_of_your_dual_processing_buck/index.html

this may be handy.

[Disco]

I have been trying to assign servers/toolset/nwmain to different cores and in the end only one thing worked:

http://robpol86.com/pages/imagecfg.php

For me (Phenom 9500) the numbers are different. I needed to use the -u option first, btw.

My setup (mind that this is my modding machine, not the server)

0x1 = core 1 Firefox, MSN (MSN really messes up NWN with alt-tab)
0x3 = core 2 nwtoolset.exe
0x5 = core 3 nwserver.exe
0x7 = core 4 nwmain.exe

I had to turn off all CPU affinity options in the NWN/NWNX ini files.

Machine runs a lot smoother when mossing/testing with all three programs running, so this trick is not just handy for servers.

[Tempest]

Hey Disco thanks for that post! So this tells the O/S what to do vise us trying in the config files from NWN?

"T"

[Disco]

Yups. This is like pulling a gun on your OS and telling it to do what you want it to do.

[Tempest]

Nice! I have no problem doing that!