[mohaa] server performance

[Salsich, Luke]

Thanks for the thoughts, Andre! I agree, I am sorta paranoid when it comes
to performance - comes from my tech background: I start off with new
machines barely stressing them, then gradually ease them up while carefully
monitoring the changes as I go......

Hey, Im wondering if you could give me an idea of how many players you
average at peak times on one of your PIII 1000 servers? you say you have
four servers running on them. This is great to hear! But how many players
does that translate into? 48 or so? 

I am thinking two 24 players games will be a good place to move to and see
how that goes. Right now, each game takes up 125 MB of ram, so I figure with
512 MB of ram and two games running, I should be ok. 

Anybody else have similar thoughts on this?

Luke 



-----Original Message-----
From: André Rivotti Casimiro [mailto:rivotti at netcabo.pt]
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:12 AM
To: mohaa at icculus.org
Subject: RE: [mohaa] server performance


That's not freakness, it's paranoia :).  I've 2 PIII 1000 server with
512 of Ram and 1 Mbit. There is 4 Moh:AA servers in each machine. It was
5 but that was too much. With 4, it runs good, with pings of 20-50. With
that P4 2.0 you should have at least 3 24 Players servers. The only
problem you could have is the lack of memory. But not CPU.
Use the command top and see what each server takes in CPU and MEM usage.

Regards
André Rivotti Casimiro

-----Mensagem original-----
De: Salsich, Luke [mailto:LJS at protectorgroup.com] 
Enviada: sexta-feira, 10 de Janeiro de 2003 14:18
Para: 'mohaa at icculus.org'
Assunto: [mohaa] server performance

hey all,
 
The recent posts about server performance have gotten me thinking about
a couple of things (wow): I have several Linux machines that I rent from
a server farm - they are PIV 2.0 with 512 MB of ram and 10mbit
connections (limited to 400 gigs of transfer per month - each instance
is currently only using about 180 gigs). I currently run only one game
on each server because I am a performance freak! With a 24 player game,
we average around 60-90 ping. Each server instance takes up only about
125 MB of ram (fluctuates a bit, but this is the average). I haven't
spent much time tracking the CPU usage on the Moh:aa servers,
though.......
 
Anyone run a similar server (in terms of hardware) with more than one
game running at a time???? I am thinking of running two games on each
server this weekend as a test - the usual 24 player game and an 18
player TDM game as well to see how the machine performs. Any thoughts on
this in general??!??
 
Happy Friday!
 
-Luke