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Very Nice Jay!<br><br>
I don't get a choice of MB or CPU with EV1 or servermatrix.<br>
Who you using?<br><br>
Also, you are 100% correct on everythign you stated.<br>
(All my MB's at home and Chips and Tyan, and AMD.<br>
People look at me like I am crazy to prefer AMD over<br>
Intel, but you have what is really called "Virtual CPU
Provisioning".<br>
These features are on the high end machines. The DEC<br>
16 CPU servers that run critical financial apps with big Sybase<br>
backend's. You do not get tied to one CPU.<br><br>
This of course is not the case with these INtel HT POS!<br><br>
I also saw the "woot" on running "Jays" set up.
How do I obtain?<br>
I don't have many customers, but I got a clan, and a few servers.<br>
Servers that are not cutting it for me. <br><br>
I also have NO love for RH. Hate em. Esp ES3.0.<br>
I will gladly flip to fedora.<br><br>
Let me know what you are running, where you get the servers<br>
with Tyan and AMD, I will gladly switch. My sons and the clan<br>
are getting to me, and I don't have the time to spend to make<br>
it all right.<br><br>
Any help would be very appreciated. (If you wish, please send<br>
to my email.)<br><br>
My humble thanks!<br><br>
Mark<br><br>
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At 11:22 AM 12/24/2004, Jay Vasallo wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Dr. D,<br>
<br>
Before I started building these machines to run my business, I kissed a
lot of arse. No joke. Fragged with some hot shots from AMD for years and
still frag with them from time to time.<br>
<br>
I did a lot of studying on 1/0 transfer and also AMD's ability to handle
and tranfer information 2 -8 times, depending on the style of chip you
get. For example:<br>
<br>
248's can handle two way traffic - two cpu's on tyan<br>
448's can handle four way traffic - four cpu's<br>
848's can handle eight way traffic - eight cpu's<br>
<br>
People used to laugh at me when I told them we had two way traffic.
"Oh you full of shit Jay the game doesn't support it!" Game
doesn't have to support for you to get two to four way transfer. This is
where AMD & Tyan make a graceful marriage. While no one is wathcing,
Tyan is swapping wives! The program never gets binded to a cpu. It goes
to the cpu for cruch time, does it thing and leave. When it needs to get
more info cruched, it goies back. If that cpu is used, it goes to the
next one. Always takes the cpu freed first. Never has to wai because cpu
1 is still screwing around processing info for ET game. <br>
<br>
Now if I have a crashed proggy on cpu1, all the programs that started on
cpu1 will now goto cpu2. This eliminates a great deal of stress for CPU1.
<br>
<br>
So now not only have we eliminated the need to wait in line, but we also
have 50,000 1/0 a second utilizing Tyan Motherboards before we ever
decided to go with a OS. So now My system will out perform yours at any
day or time and we haven't even picked the bitch to take us there.<br>
<br>
<br>
Three years ago, I met a person by the name of Nelson Marques. This
person to me is one of the most trusted people I have ever met on the
net. Being both from European decent, we hit it off from the start.
Nelson always told me, screw Red Hat, kiss Fedora! So now I go ahead and
learn Fedora Cora and its concorde, the FC2 -64. "apt-get" rpm
will update the software and install most of everything that you may need
to run games. If not, the forums do a great job of teaching as they are
many Fedora geeks who are way to fat to leave their homes, so they sit
around all day and help people - this is good.<br>
<br>
So now I have good cpu's, a great MB , OS and now it is time to choose
the drives. This is where 10 to 15 thousand rpm drives take command.
Having the ability to do 50,000 I/O a second and goto a 5000 rpm drive,
well doesn't make sense. We choose Seagate Barracudas. Never ever have
any issues with the drives and they are superfast.<br>
<br>
Last thing - memory. I have seen a server with one gig of ram and three
cod games lag the living shit out of everyone connecting. Warp speed Mr.
Zulu. Yea right. Funny playing catch-up on a server because you were
killed 5 minutes ago but you don't know it yet. A great deal of memory on
surplus will releave any stress the cpu may encounter under heavy
load.<br>
<br>
For instance: I like to do this test... Wait till I about about 50
percent load capacity, then I would go and do something crazy like tar up
the home drive, or even start a network backup! Now we have all server
connecting to each other and transferrring info at 10mbs a second right
after a good bz2. This will cause some faces to crack in the wind, let me
tell you! If I do not see my system load rise to 100 percent, then I know
I am fine. I seen a three gig memory server hit 100 almost instantly
untill I dropped another gig of ram!<br>
<br>
Here's another thing I would never do, is put the same game on one box. I
know that it seems logical to have only one game on a box, but it is far
from practical. Imagine a box with 10 COD uo's running on it at the same
time. lol. Good luck if you don't have a quad four! But I normally get
between 10 - 15 games on a box smoothly. I do swtch from COD to sof2 to
Ut2004 to BF to whatever..never just one game.<br>
<br>
Some can say it is luck. Negative! Some can bash but I couldn't care
less. I spent close to quarter million on my network between machines and
learning the hard way, for there is no website you can go to, that will
make you a server provider by purchasing a subscription.<br>
<br>
So now I turn to my next move, complete automation. I looked towards
<a href="http://www.game-panel.com">www.game-panel.com</a> for a clue.
But those people need help in a big way. I mean they don't have a clue.
Their program is straight up crap. Sorry don't mean to bash but I only
call it as I see it. A duck is a duck and it doesn't matter how you dress
it. After about a three hour install, I noticed that they would have
access to my servers any anytime. You have to be a straight up idiot to
let a program have root access at all time and them have root access to
hundres of machines. Did someone say Hacker...yes I did becasuse this is
exactlys exactly what we seen happening to our machines. So I requested
my five dollars back from them for their initial try package. <br>
<br>
Fiance tugging at my shirt, "My biological clock is ticking
...." OMFG, Lisa has nothing on my fiance when she says it. It stops
sound!<br>
<br>
So I decided to use a bunch of commands, like sed, grap, awk and so on to
make my first automated site.
<a href="https://www.ventriloservers.biz">https://www.ventriloservers.biz</a>
. After about two months of programming, testing and more testing, we now have a perfect site! No Flaws and completely automated. This site will eventually be my Kid's college fund. I never have to worry about anything as all servers are fully secured, fc 64 and they all chat with each other. the minute one stops chatting, the others shut down. Nice little secuity feature...almost like stealing a Porche only to run out of gas as the cops get on your ass. =o)<br>
<br>
This is another reason why I use daemon tools! Great to restart once a week and have 400 plus ventrilo servers kick on instanly! Why restart? Why not? I paid for it, I can start it when i want.. =o)<br>
<br>
So now with my fiance tugging at me, I know the day is coming soom where I will have to give up the other 50 woman I am dating! So now I must finish making clanwarzgamingservers.com completely automated. Once this is done, I am taking off to Rome!! <br>
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This is my story and I am sticking to it.<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Call me if you need anything, fo i may be just watching the boob tube for most of today and then tonight family things.</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>1-314-495-4840</font><br>
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=o)<br>
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<dd>----- Original Message ----- <br>
<dd>From:</b> <a href="mailto:defilm@acm.org">Mark J. DeFilippis</a> <br>
<dd>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</a> <br>
<dd>Sent:</b> Friday, December 24, 2004 8:49 AM<br>
<dd>Subject:</b> Re: [cod] Anyone running a good COD or UO with 1.5x???<br><br>
<br>
<dd>Jay,<br><br>
<dd>I would be crazy to pass up your gracious offer. I am certain I can<br>
<dd>learn a lot. Reality is I am just a Dad trying to run a clan for my boys<br>
<dd>and the friends he has made. It is costing me a bundle right now, because<br>
<dd>I don't think I have the right machines/configs. I will gladly take you up on<br>
<dd>your offer. You are never too old to learn! I am not a server rental company, but<br>
<dd>beginning to feel like one. At over $300/mo in servers, cause you can't get the<br>
<dd>server configs and combinations for what U want to do correct, it is frustrating.<br><br>
<dd>Perhaps I should follow the leader. Both my machines have only 1 Gig Ram,<br>
<dd>and indeed that may be part of the problem. Setting up the server to run a<br>
<dd>few different servers should not be so difficult, but you need to spend the<br>
<dd>time, and really get in to the QIII stuff, and I don't have it, and didn't do it. Guilty.<br><br>
<dd>I need to walk however before I can run. If I wish to run 2 UO, 2 COD, a BF1942,<br>
<dd>I am going to need more ram, that I know. But I tested yesterday...<br><br>
<dd>I ran a single 30U wide open UO on a single 3.2Ghz P4 HT, 1GB Ram, 100Mbs<br>
<dd>and full on FOY, everyone ina darn jeep or tank (except the same guy that<br>
<dd>snipers from the tower ;-))<br><br>
<dd>I ran the same config on a 2xDual Pent 2.4Ghz HT, 1GB, 100Mbs, and it lags<br>
<dd>badly. CPU on the 3.2 is 50-60%. CPU on the 2.4 is 70-75%-80% but one<br>
<dd>CPU of the two, the other sitting there, shares once in a while, but otherwise is idle.<br><br>
<dd>A bit perplexing, but perhaps I am indeed hitting the CPU limit on the one processor...<br><br>
<dd>David Fuess, if you recall his post on 12/2 stated he is running 3 UO server on one machine along with several other game types (1 UT2k4, 3 SOF2, 3-WET, 3 COD, 1 CSS) and showed the IP's, etc, and it seems to check out. (3 are private others public)... See below:<br><br>
<br>
<dd>Md<br><br>
<dd>From: David A. Fuess [<a href="mailto:david@fuess.net" eudora="autourl">mailto:david@fuess.net</a>]<br>
<dd>Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:27 PM<br>
<dd>To: cod@icculus.org<br>
<dd>Subject: Re: [cod] Multiple service server + Going off list due to<br>
<dd>"spamming"<br><br>
<dd>I run 3 UO servers on one machine along with several other game types<br>
<dd>(1-UT2k4, 3-SOF2, 3-WET, 3 COD:UO, 1-CSS)<br><br>
<dd>Team Judge UT2004 67.18.122.226 7777 10000 24 8 ut4s xCTFGame CTF-SMOTE<br>
<dd>Team Judge Public CTF 67.18.122.226 20100 15000 30 0 sof2s ctf mp_kam4<br>
<dd>Team Judge Public Custom 67.18.122.226 20200 15000 30 0 sof2s ctf mp_Italy3<br>
<dd>Team Judge L337 Match Server 67.18.122.226 20300 10000 20 0 sof2s ctf<br>
<dd>arioche/mp_small<br>
<dd>Team Judge 9 Map Campaign ETPro 3.0 67.18.122.227 27960 25000 28 1 ets et<br>
<dd>supplydepot<br>
<dd>Team Judge Custom/Stock 67.18.122.227 27961 100000 28 0 ets et oasis<br>
<dd>Team Judge Match Server 67.18.122.227 27962 15000 18 0 ets et battery<br>
<dd>Team Judge L337 COD/UO Server 67.18.122.228 28960 25000 24 5 cods tdm<br>
<dd>mp_saint-rush<br>
<dd>Team Judge L337 COD/UO CTF-HQ 67.18.122.228 28961 25000 24 0 cods ctf<br>
<dd>mp_cassino<br>
<dd>Team Judge L337 COD/UO Match 67.18.122.228 28962 25000 24 0 cods dom<br>
<dd>mp_arnhem<br>
<dd>Team Judge L337 HL2 CS 67.18.122.229 27015 - 24 0 hl2s cs_italy<br><br>
<dd>You see the three UO servers are on ports 28960, 28961, and 28962. Each<br>
<dd>game is a separate install on Linux so the connection is defined uniquely<br>
<dd>for each.<br><br>
<dd>Dave<br><br>
<br>
<dd>At 10:08 PM 12/23/2004, you wrote:<br>
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<dd><font face="arial" size=2>I can give you a link so you can dl my entire setup. Should take you 12 minutes ...<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="arial" size=2>I use that one script for my daemon customers... and add a screen command for the customers that like to switch from mod to mod.<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="arial" size=2>I don't allow downloads straight from the servers. Every config file has a redirect so all the customers can grab whatever maps we have at <a href="http://www.codmaps.net">www.codmaps.net</a> .<br>
</font>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="arial" size=2>Let me know if you want my set up. I also use <br>
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<dd>Mark J. DeFilippis, Ph. D EE defilm@acm.org<br>
<dd> defilm@ieee.org<br><br>
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