[cod] Mmmm... cores

[Rick Payton]

I run my game servers in both a VMware ESX and ESXi environment. the ESXi setup is only pushing a single 14 player game server, but I used the ESX host to push 8 Left 4 Dead servers, as well as the COD4 and about 5 other steam based servers, with nary an issue.
 
-mauirixxx
 
Rick Payton, I.T. Manager
Morikawa & Associates, LLC
(808) 572-1745 Office
(808) 442-0978 eFax
www.mai-hawaii.com
 

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From: "Einar S. idsø" [mailto:einar.cod at norsk-esport.no] 
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 7:24 AM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [cod] Mmmm... cores


Do virtual servers actually work well with game-servers? We use virtual servers for
a lot of things, but for our game servers we use only pure physical hosts. I would
think that real-time properties, which are quite important for game-servers as
opposed to webservers, sql-servers and mailservers, would be quite poor for 
virtualised servers.

Which virtualisation solutions have proven to work for past-paced games? And is
there a certain trick to setting them up, such as binding a virtual server to a single
core?

Cheers,
Einar

Dallas Crandall wrote: 

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	Each game server, as far as I know will only use a single core so virtual is what this bad boy was made for.  :-) This machine in our environment running Linux game servers, we would be able to run 40-50 game servers on this single box! Currently we run 6-10 windows servers on a single dual core xeon w/8gigs of ram. Remember Vmware allows over commitment of memory!!! Most others do not.

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