Huh... yet to see anyone recommending AMD. interesting. I guess I'll go intel. I've got a two gen old xeon single core/dual proc box that I think is too old and a few shiny 2xquad core xeon boxes that I think are overkill ;) I need to go find something in the middle ground.
I've got enough hardware here to stress test a variety of platforms and try to get some performance numbers out there. Anyone aware of any pseudo-automated way of stress testing a server in a repeatable fashion? I can fire up a few clients and control players automatically using something like AutoIt and use munin (or similiar) to get stats off the server. Has this been done before with SRCDS with publicly available results? bruce On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:38 AM, Cc2iscooL wrote: > I'm gonna have to vouch for Intel as well. > > E8300's on my end. > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Jeff Sugar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I and some other admins I speak to have the Q6600. It's been a >> dream for us >> and the server hasn't even broken a sweat with the multiple servers >> we run. >> I'd say "number of tf2 players possible", but we haven't had a >> problem even >> with our two tf2 servers entirely full. >> >> -Atreus >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Bruce Potter <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Howdy, >>> Quick (but I'm sure not simple) question regarding processor choice. >>> I've been running some TF2 servers (and now L4D servers as well) >>> on an >>> AMD-based server with CentOS for a while. Currently have 2 x dual >>> core 2.8GHz previous-gen Opterons in the box. FYI, the machine is >>> on >>> a 100Mbps connection in a datacenter with way more connectivity than >>> that so I'm not at all bandwidth constrained. >>> >>> After much tuning, I'm still not happy with the overall performance. >>> On TF2 every user takes up about 5% CPU on a core. After 12-14 >>> users >>> (depending on the map) I start to use enough CPU (50-80%) that I get >>> nervous about choke and other performance issues. 20 or so would >>> probably be the limit on this hardware. It's not a very popular >>> server so we've never hit the limit. ;) >>> >>> I'm looking at building a second box for more TF2 servers. I've >>> heard >>> anecdotally that Intel systems run SRCDS _much_ better than AMD >>> hardware. At this point I have to believe it b/c while this Opteron >>> system isn't top of the line, it's plenty quick for other purposes >>> I've thrown at the same hardware (database, web, etc). So I'm going >>> to give a run at Intel hardware. >>> >>> The new server I'm building isn't going to be racked, however, so I >>> have some flexibility in hardware options. What I'm trying to >>> assess >>> at this point is the difference in performance between a core 2 duo, >>> an i7, and a xeon proc when it comes to SRCDS. >>> >>> I'm hoping to do a head to head on all these setups in a bit (I've >>> got >>> access to a lot of systems) but I don't have time to test them out >>> right now. Any advice on # of TF2 slots on various hardware ppl >>> have >>> would be very much appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> bruce >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>> archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
