[bf1942] BFV Bandwidth Usage

[Jon Wolberg]

When you say Vanilla, you mean BFV or BF1942?

Jon Wolberg
Tech Support Manager
www.ECGNetwork.Com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sid Chrome" <sidbo at xtra.co.nz>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 4:28 PM
Subject: RE: [bf1942] BFV Bandwidth Usage


> I run a fairly busy 64 player vanilla server here.
>
> I've currently got a dual Opteron test box that I'm running it on, 2 x 246
> cpu's, 6G ram, and on a 100M pipe into our core backbone.
>
> Some version of Redhat 64bit linux installed.
>
> With a full server, cpu peaks at around the 45% mark, network peaks to
about
> 4 to 4.5mbit/sec, and looking at the console the lowest the server fps
seems
> to drop is to about 20.
>
> On a good fast client machine and network connection, this is as smooth as
> silk. The best I've ever been able to get a full 64 player game running.
>
> The key thing I've found for clients getting "server lag" is the server
fps
> setting while it's full. If it's staying at 15 or above constantly, then
> clients will not notice any server lag. It's going to be their machine
that
> is not capable of supporting that number of players.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Wolberg [mailto:jon at ecgnetwork.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:17 a.m.
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] BFV Bandwidth Usage
>
> It seems the game just cant handle 64 players.  The server isnt going
above
> 60% usage and there is no choke on the bandwidth.  Everyone says they lag
> when it starts to go 50+ though :(
>
> Jon Wolberg
> Tech Support Manager
> www.ECGNetwork.Com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Wolberg" <jon at ecgnetwork.com>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:10 PM
> Subject: [bf1942] BFV Bandwidth Usage
>
>
> > Hey Guys-
> >
> > Thought you would all enjoy this.  Our 64 man server has started to fill
> up
> > ( been 50+ last hour ) and should be full the rest of the evening.  I
> threw
> > together a little login so everyone can watch the BW usage.  It seems to
> be
> > roughly the same as BF1942, which is good.  I'm getting really strange
CPU
> > readings on our Windows machine, i'll give more on that later when I
> figure
> > it out.
> >
> > http://guardian.defenderhosting.com/traffic/
> >
> > login:  bfv
> > password:  bandwidthpig
> >
> > Please be considerate.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jon Wolberg
> > Tech Support Manager
> > www.ECGNetwork.Com
>