[mohaa] Server Requirements

[Eduardo E. Silva]

I presently have a 768k (half a T1 rate) upstream and 200k downstream on
my cable modem. My Linux server is a RedHAt 9 with P4 2.5Ghz and 1G RAM. I
have noticed two things from my previous server (800Mhz PIII w/1G RAM).

1.- The context switches are ALWAYS inder 400. With the P3 the were well
over 3K most of the times while the MOHAA server had over 6 players.

2.- With 10 players there is no lagg. I have set the max players at 16, but
so far I had a max of 9-11 players with ALL weapons enable.

3.- My bandwith settings are 5k sv_minrate and 10k sv_maxrate.

4.- I have never gone past 40k bytes per second (upstream) EVEN with 11
players.

One thing that DOES help is shockwaves Autokick. This thigs keeps pingers
> 225 out of the box. I also have blocked all of the AOL dialup
(ipt.aol.com) with IPtables -- I use MonMotha script.

question for Ryan:

 Why does MOHAA pumps more thru the upstream than down stream ? It seems
like for every byte it receives it send two. If this the way it is or is
it a 'bug' ?




Matrix said:
> MOH and SH both send a lot of data out which will be your upstream, and
> unless you have a huge upstream, my guess would be 5 to 8 players, but
> with laggggg on a cable connection.  A long time ago, I played with a
> Quake3 server on a cable connection which used less upstream than MOH or
> SH, and when going over 8 players, the lag was unplayable...  Just my 2
> cents and history of trying to run a cable server...
>
> Matrix
>
> Original Message -----------------------
> Along those same lines, I am looking to build a server but I am unsure of
> the
> hardware requirements. What do you recommend for hosting a 18 player
> MOH:SH
> Linux server? Right now I'm looking at a 1.4 Athelon at 512 mb ram. Good
> enough? Also, this is a cable connection. Do you think it will work well?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean O'Leary [mailto:razor at razorhosts.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:52 AM
> To: mohaa at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [mohaa] Spearhead Server lag with > 20 players
>
>
> Alrighty. Do you know if Ryan is working on this problem?
>
>
>
>> With 20 players you will need a 2.5 Ghz+ CPU as spearhead is spikes
>> really badly. If not then you will have to reduce the player limit
>> until ryan finds the problem in the spearhead server.
>>
>>     Steve
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sean O'Leary" <razor at razorhosts.com>
>> To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 3:57 PM
>> Subject: [mohaa] Spearhead Server lag with > 20 players
>>
>>
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> I am seeing pretty bad lag in my Spearhead server when more than 20
>>> players hop in. I am running BETA5 of spearheadlinuxded on Redhat 7.3
>>> with  the 2.15 patch of spearhead installed.
>>>
>>> Are there any settings in the server.cfg that I can tweak with?
>>>
>>> Is there anything else I should looking at to see why it is laggy
>>> with a  bunch of people on?
>>>
>>> How much bandwidth does each spearhead client require?
>>>
>>> Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sean O'Leary
>>> Owner, Razorhosts
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
> --
> Sean O'Leary
> Owner, Razorhosts
>
>


-- 
Thanks,

Ed Silva
Silvex Consulting Inc.
esilva at silvex.com
(714) 504-6870 Cell
(714) 897-3800 Fax