I guess I missed this before.. But you're wanting to put 3+ active servers on (Presumable a dual Opteron or even dual Opteron dual-cores) on your server?
I use Dual Xeon's with Hyperthreading enabled. Granted I believe the Opteron (Dual core or not) in general has an edge on Xeon's, but I can't see you managing more than 4 active/full servers on one machine. I put 3 games per machine, because in my experience the machines begin choking the second you have a fifth heavily active process. By only running 3 game servers, I leave room for any other processes that need CPU to use the "fourth" thread/cpu. I know Hyperthreading doesn't cleanly equate to a dual-core chip and its not really 4 CPUs, but thats what I've found. Due to funding constraints I have to run my web/email servers on the same machine as the games, and heavy activity from Apache/MySQL/Postfix was causing in-game lag when I had four public servers on the machine. I moved one of the game servers to another machine and that resolved all my performance issues. I suspect that if I didn't have Apache/Etc running on that machine I could put a fourth game server back. (I've never tested this because on the second machine, that fourth "thread/cpu" is utilized by several HLTVs, so that machine also has only three game servers) Maybe its because I use 2.4ghz Xeons and they aren't the fastest thing on the block anymore. Just saying what I've observed, I don't profess to be an expert on the subject. I hope I made sense though. > But what I do know is that I need to get > something up and running fast so that I can put my servers back on the > system and run more than 3 - 20 man servers. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
