[bf1942] Resource consumption

[The Other Day]

> --On Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:20 PM +0500 The Other Day
> <theotherday at wetookyour.tv> wrote:
>
>> Bandwidth required per user
>> Memory required per user/bot
>>
>> Also, how to limit the bandwidth per user. For example, if I only want
>> each player to use a certain ammount of k...
>
> For measuring bandwidth, try ntop (http://ntop.org/). I just brought
> this up on my system which runs a dozen Tribes2 servers and one BF1942
> server, plus web, forums, and FTP. It runs as a service and uses libpcap
> to monitor packets, much like tcpdump. It provides a simple web server
> on a special port (default 3000) to display its stats. Check out
> http://matureasskickers.net:3000/ to see some sample output.
>
> For memory, you could run top with the M command (sort by memory) and
> the u command (show processes for a specific user) to display just the
> bf server. Then load some bots and users and see how the memory stats
> change.
>
> I think there's a parameter in ServerSettings.con for that, but don't
> recall off the top of my head.
>
>> Last question, what distro of Linux is it being built on?
>
> Don't know the answer to this but it's working fine on my Red Hat 8.0
> box.


So what you are saying is there is no set # to expect. For example, UT2003
requires 36k min per user connection etc?


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