[cod] CoD4 server requirements: Please rate my hardware

[Dallas Crandall]

Someone in the list here had said that COD4 was better on CPU’s & memory
then COD2 was, so that would mean it takes less to make it run. The machines
I have seen so far called out will run the server, however the number of
slots will need to be determined after you set it up and as always the more
you have in memory & cpu, the happier you will be.


-----Original Message-----
From: compudaze at gmail.com [mailto:compudaze at gmail.com]On Behalf Of Jared
Bell
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 11:48 AM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [cod] CoD4 server requirements: Please rate my hardware

Gonna have a few people over on the lan this weekend. How many do you think
i can host on a Athlon K8 800MHz with 768MB of ram?

I'm hoping at least 8-10, but will 800mhz be fast enough even for a small
local server?
On Dec 6, 2007 1:24 PM, Alan Clegg < alan at clegg.com <mailto:alan at clegg.com>
> wrote:
Georgecooldude wrote:

> What do you think would run on a 2.4ghz quad core xeon and 4-5gb ram?
> 80gb 10,000rpm drive on 100mbit connection?
Too many people ask this question for me not to put my nose directly
into it... here goes.

As with my day job, these questions can't really be answered without
knowing a lot more about the environment.  Yes, lots of things depend on
CPU, disk, ram, etc. but your network connection is much more important.

I have yet to see any true traffic analysis of a COD4 server, so I can't
tell you how many instances you could run over a true 100mbit LAN
connection.

When people say "I have a 100mbit connection", that's all well and good,
as that is what you have decided to pay for.

I doubt, however, that your provider gives you that full 100mbit to the
outside world.

Take as an example, my house.  I have a gigabit switch between some
servers, 100mbit in most rooms, and 54mbit wireless.   With all of the
wonderful infrastructure, I still only have 4Mbit to the outside world
(thanks, Timewarner for not offering FIOS).  I guess that I could claim
that my COD4 server has "GIGABIT CONNECTIVITY", as it is connected to
the gig-e switch.... that does not mean that traffic coming out of my
server to the outside world is anywhere near gig speeds.

Even if your provider has multi-gig connections to the outside world,
consider how many other people they have sold "100mbit" connections to?

It doesn't take many people cranking full 100mbit flows to flood a gig
network... See if you can get your provider to give you their
oversubscribe numbers.  How many 100mbit connections are they selling on
that 10gig interconnect?  Does it look possible?

Then, you have to consider transit latency.  Even if your provider has
multi-gig connections to their provider, think about where the flows
pass over exchange points.  When I look at the output of traceroute, I
see a couple of places that it is obvious that network traffic is
hitting some sort of roadblock.