[mohaa] Server Requirements

[Eduardo E. Silva]

try sar -n EDEV <delay> <REPETITIONS>

for a 15 seconds intervals of 1000 readings:

[root at ns1 tmp]# sar -n EDEV 15 15
Linux 2.4.20-9 (ns1.silvex.com)         04/22/2003

09:06:57 PM     IFACE   rxerr/s   txerr/s    coll/s  rxdrop/s  txdrop/s 
txcarr/s  rxfram/s  rxfifo/s  txfifo/s
09:07:12 PM        lo      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00   
  0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
09:07:12 PM      eth0      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00   
  0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
09:07:12 PM      eth1      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00   
  0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00

or try DEV instead of EDEV
[root at ns1 tmp]# sar -n DEV 15 15
Linux 2.4.20-9 (ns1.silvex.com)         04/22/2003

09:07:34 PM     IFACE   rxpck/s   txpck/s   rxbyt/s   txbyt/s   rxcmp/s  
txcmp/s  rxmcst/s
09:07:49 PM        lo      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00   
  0.00      0.00
09:07:49 PM      eth0      0.40      0.40     15.33     99.00      0.00   
  0.00      0.00
09:07:49 PM      eth1      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00   
  0.00      0.00

More info type "man sar"

Sean O'Leary said:
> does anyone have any cool scripts that I can run to monitor current
> average and max in/out bandwidth for an ethernet interface??
>
>
>
>
>> ROFL... I was about to ask you how in the hell you got your server to
>> perform and throttled down that low with traffic on that many
>> clients... hehe... I looked one of my charts, and this is a 18 client
>> server...
>>
>> Max  In: 345.1 kb/s (0.3%)
>> Max  Out: 622.4 kb/s (0.6%)
>> Average  In: 243.8 kb/s (0.2%)
>> Average  Out: 418.7 kb/s (0.4%)
>> Current  In: 270.7 kb/s (0.3%)
>> Current  Out: 475.1 kb/s (0.5%)
>>
>> Then after reading the post earlier that said the kB/s your chart was
>> set to, and then checked my charts at kb/s...  I was bummed because I
>> thought you may have found a way to get the darn traffic to not be so
>> much.. hehe
>>
>> Matrix
>>
>>
>>
>> Original Message -----------------------
>> I beg to differ with Matrix.  I am running MOH:AA on a Dual PII500 RH8
>> box and run 16 users just fine and the max bandwidth I have pushed is
>> 120kb. See mrtg stats at
>>
>> http://7th.servebeer.com/localmrtg/localhost_2.html
>>
>> The box is in a datacenter and has a 100mb connection into their dual
>> oc3's. Which is a little misleading because they limit my box to 5mb
>> in/out and I have never come close to using it.
>>
>> Also please bear in mind that I am running my clans team speak server
>> on the same box and regular have 7 to 8 users using the 16.4kbit codec.
>>
>> When CI starts running scans at 18 users I start getting complaints of
>> lag. This is more a CPU issue than bandwidth.  Without CI I can run 20
>> user games w/o problems.  Once CPU hits +75% users start to complain
>> about lag.  I have new 1ghz cpu's on order that will hopefully take me
>> to 32 player game.  Or at least 28ish..
>>
>> Jason Maderios
>>
>>
>>
>> *Note
>>
>> Dual CPU's do not offer anything other than the ability to run 2 games
>> on the same machine..  We play our matches on 1 server and leave the
>> other one up as open arena.
>>
>>
>> If you look for the server on Game Spy or with All Seeing ...
>> It's Name is:
>>
>> .:Bad Company:. Clan Server Balance+
>>
>> You can watch its usage and hit the mrtg link above to see realtime
>> stats....
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matrix [mailto:Matrix at ServerXtreme.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:02 PM
>> To: Eric Koldeweij
>> Subject: RE: Re: [mohaa] Server Requirements
>>
>> Guess I should have looked at this email before responding.. LOL.. you
>> outlined bandwidth requirements better here. :)
>>
>> Matrix
>>
>> Original Message -----------------------
>> You can figure out for yourself...
>> Matrix said each client needs about 30Kbps. I think that's rather
>> conservative, and I rather go for 50Kbps per client.
>>
>>so for 18 players you need somewhere from (18x30) 540Kbps (matrix value)
>> to (18x60) 900 Kbps (my value) up AND down, and keep a little extra
>>bandwidth for pings, remote admin etc etc. T1 at 1500Kbps fits nicely
>>with room to spare, but cable/DSL is pretty much out of the question.
>>Usually the uplink is the problem.
>>
>> Eric.
>>
>> Skrobe, Steven wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks Matrix, I appreciate the feedback. So basically you are saying
>>>that the server meets the hardware requirements, but we would almost
>>>have to be running on T1. Correct?
>
>
> --
> Sean O'Leary
> Owner, Razorhosts
>


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Thanks,

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