Choke, how to fix?

[Ejziponken]

Hi!

I’m running a Counter-strike 1.6 publicserver (32 slots) and I have a problem with my settings.
Everybody has a high choke, 30-100. I have tried many rate settings but none is working well.
The connection isn’t the problem because it’s a datacenter and other publicservers in the same
datacenter don’t have the high choke. Anyway, I looked into my server.cfg and found some
things that I don’t really know what they do.

max_queries_window "-1"
max_queries_sec_global "-1"
max_queries_sec "-1"

And if that’s not the problem, what could be? I’m using amxmodx, the latest and a few plugins
like ptb, hpk, admin_listen and admin_esp. That’s all. Using sys_ticrate 1000, running kernel
in 1000 HZ and using pingboost 2. Should I lower the ticrate?

Dell Power Edge R300
Dell Intel X5000 Chipset
Quadcore Intel Xeon X5470 3.33Ghz 1333Mhz FSB
Hynix 2x2GB Dual Rank-RAM
2st Seagate 73GB SAS 15K rpm (Raid-1)

[P4rD0nM3]

Choke happens when the server tries to send more data than a client can handle. It prevents itself from sending it to the client since it believes the client can't handle it.

Now I don't know if this still holds true for HLDS I remember Leon from Valve saying just set sv_maxupdaterate to 20 to reduce choke.

I'm pretty sure the more prominent GSPs out there would beg to differ.