COD4 lnux server requires more of memory than COD2 linux server. For COD4 linux server RAM is more important than CPU speed. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/12/6, Dallas Crandall <<a href="mailto:dallas@crd-dwc.com">
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<p><span><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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.</span></font></span></p><span class="q">
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> <a href="mailto:compudaze@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">compudaze@gmail.com</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:compudaze@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">compudaze@gmail.com</a>]<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jared
Bell<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 06, 2007
11:48 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cod@icculus.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [cod] CoD4 server
requirements: Please rate my hardware</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">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?</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">I'm hoping at least 8-10, but will 800mhz
be fast enough even for a small local server?</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">On Dec 6,
2007 1:24 PM, Alan Clegg <<a href="mailto:alan@clegg.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">alan@clegg.com</a>>
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<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 40.8pt;"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Georgecooldude
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> What do you think would run on a 2.4ghz quad core xeon and 4-5gb ram?<br>
> 80gb 10,000rpm drive on 100mbit connection?</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 40.8pt;"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Too many
people ask this question for me not to put my nose directly <br>
into it... here goes.<br>
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As with my day job, these questions can't really be answered without<br>
knowing a lot more about the environment. Yes, lots of things depend on<br>
CPU, disk, ram, etc. but your network connection is much more important. <br>
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I have yet to see any true traffic analysis of a COD4 server, so I can't<br>
tell you how many instances you could run over a true 100mbit LAN<br>
connection.<br>
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When people say "I have a 100mbit connection", that's all well and
good, <br>
as that is what you have decided to pay for.<br>
<br>
I doubt, however, that your provider gives you that full 100mbit to the<br>
outside world.<br>
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Take as an example, my house. I have a gigabit switch between some<br>
servers, 100mbit in most rooms, and 54mbit wireless. With all of the<br>
wonderful infrastructure, I still only have 4Mbit to the outside world<br>
(thanks, Timewarner for not offering FIOS). I guess that I could claim<br>
that my COD4 server has "GIGABIT CONNECTIVITY", as it is connected to<br>
the gig-e switch.... that does not mean that traffic coming out of my<br>
server to the outside world is anywhere near gig speeds.<br>
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Even if your provider has multi-gig connections to the outside world, <br>
consider how many other people they have sold "100mbit" connections
to?<br>
<br>
It doesn't take many people cranking full 100mbit flows to flood a gig<br>
network... See if you can get your provider to give you their <br>
oversubscribe numbers. How many 100mbit connections are they selling on<br>
that 10gig interconnect? Does it look possible?<br>
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Then, you have to consider transit latency. Even if your provider has<br>
multi-gig connections to their provider, think about where the flows <br>
pass over exchange points. When I look at the output of traceroute, I<br>
see a couple of places that it is obvious that network traffic is<br>
hitting some sort of roadblock.<br>
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