TL;DR: unfortunately you're probably going to have to either do some testing yourself or dig up benchmarks that may or may not be applicable to your use cases. You might try searching the FAQs of some GSP sites.
Your Q1) Varies with implementation and tuning, ideally the resource use is fairly similar but in general (and this is a very loose 'in general') Linux resources are cheaper on a cycles-per-dollar kind of basis. Your Q2) Again subject to implementation and tuning; the same levels of client-side performance are readily achievable for the titles you listed from either platform, with the resources required varying by factors including OS distribution to hardware. Your Q3) (So many neckbeards began to itch furiously, all around the world, when you asked this question!) In the world-at-large, 'distro' choice is almost entirely driven by selection criteria like ease-of-use or support availability, or the presence of drivers for required peripherals. Since ideally your game servers' OS will be transparent to your 'users' it all comes down to which version you're comfortable/capable of learning to implement/administer/support -- or which platform your GSP is built on, if it comes to that. On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Felipe Fujihara <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello guys, > > I have some Team Fortress 2, CSGO, CSS and CS servers running on a Windows > 2008 R2 and I'm thinking about moving to Linux. There are many reasons > for that, like the monthly price paid for license and usage of resources. > > But before moving, I would like your opinion for some questions. Can you > help me? > > 1) Linux servers use the same amount of CPU and Ram Memory? > > 2) Which one (Linux or Windows) provide the best performance for servers? > > 3) Which one is the best free version of Linux? I guess it's CentOS, right? > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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