RE: RE: Re: [mohaa] Server Requirements

Wed Apr 23 02:53:30 EDT 2003

thx for all of the great help with these scripts.... this listserv is 
awesome.

> 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
>>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed Silva
> Silvex Consulting Inc.
> esilva at silvex.com
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-- 
Sean O'Leary
Owner, Razorhosts