hae you tired CentOS 3.5 which is 2.4.xxx based with x86-64 support?
Scott Tuttle wrote:
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?
That is correct.
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.
Dual opteron 246.
I was running this.
1 - 20 Man cs 1.6 server - fairly full most of the time.
3 - 16 Man cs 1.6 servers - 2 - full alot of the time - 1 - not hardly
full at all
1 - 20 Man Source server - never full
1 - 24 Man dod server - most of the time not full. but occassionally
we would get full 24 people on
1 - 12 man private 1.6 server
When the 24 man dod server would be full it would use regularly 30
percent of one of the servers. I had it locked to one cpu.
The other servers I run on the other cpu. I never had any problems
with them running with each other and that cpu might push up to 20%
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)
I also ran hltv recording on one of the machines 24x7 and iis 6.0 and
sql server (low load) with no issues what so ever.
> 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.
The Opteron 246, from some sources, out preforms the xeon 3.2. So
maybe that is how I made this all possible. But those days are long
gone since I switched to Centos 4.1.
I just want to know what other linux users are using. If they arent
doing anythign close to what I was doing when I was running Windows
then it is obviously clear to me that I will go back to Windows. I
was running Windows Enterprise edition (MSDN Edition) if anyone thinks
that that fact might make a difference.
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