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(Damn that was hard to not mention this other company "i don't remember the name" who just pointed up a finger to their community) Thx again Milton for this official "guess" ! Milton Ngan a écrit : > Just from the small scale testing we have seen, the resource requirements are > similar. The memory foot print is about the same. CPU looks about the same. I > am waiting for the demo to go out to get better data. > > M. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Parker > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:57 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D2 server requirements > > Milton, > > Do you happen to have any information about how the resource usage of L4D2 > compares to L4D? > > Thanks, > Dave > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Milton Ngan <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:41 pm > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D2 server requirements > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > <[email protected]> > > >> CPU shouldn't be much of an issue. Each game takes on average 10- >> 15% of a core. There are obviously spikes that go higher. 8 >> player games don't actually take much more CPU than a 1 player >> game because the server is doing less AI work. >> >> On these servers, I have between 200-300 people playing at a >> time. This is very similar to the player numbers we see when >> running TF servers, except we run far fewer TF instances on the >> same hardware. >> >> Memory is still an important factor, because if you run out of >> RAM, then you will swap and your games will hitch due to I/O >> latency. >> >> M. >> ________________________________________ >> From: [email protected] [hlds_linux- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Midnight >> [[email protected]]sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:26 PM >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D2 server requirements >> >> What I'm asking is not how many can you spawn in a given amount of >> memory, but how many can be actively running with players in them >> without lagging? I find that I run out of CPU way before >> memory since >> the game is a CPU hog. >> >> Surely you can't run 50 servers with players in them all at the same >> time right? So how many can you run at the same >> time? How much cpu >> does a full 8 player server use? >> >> Thanks for your input. >> >> >> Milton Ngan wrote: >> >>> I can support 50 instances of L4D1 on a dual 2.5GHz Quad Core >>> >> system. So if you only have one, then half that. That being >> said, I need at least 10GB of RAM on Linux to achieve this. >> >>> Under Windows, there is no forked mode, so each instance will >>> >> take up more memory resources. So I would estimate around 16GB >> would be required to do the same thing. On a 4GB Windows 2003 >> system we were supporting around 13 instances quite happily. >> >>> So depending on how much memory you have, it could be that >>> >> your limit is memory and not CPU. >> >>> M. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Midnight> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:19 PM >> >>> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >>> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D2 server requirements >>> >>> How many ACTIVE L4D servers can you guys run on a 2.5 Ghz Quad Xeon >>> 1333MHz? Seems that I can only run 3-4 per box without people >>> complaining about lag, that is less than 1 per core. I >>> >> see each server >> >>> using around 25-35% CPU of a core and 6-9 of the whole >>> >> box. I know this >> >>> is the linux list but I'm running Windows 2008, but I figure >>> >> it should >> >>> be basically the same. >>> >>> >>> Craig H wrote: >>> >>> >>>> It'll probably take a little more processing power per fork, >>>> >> I don't see it >> >>>> as being that substantial of an increase. I'd be amazed if it >>>> >> is really >> >>>> worth noting. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
