You need that much hardware just to handle ~20 connections? How much latency are you experiencing with that setup and is it possible to use clusters/cloud hosting to host this?
What's the cost of the setup? What's the cost of bandwidth? What is the cost to the FSF for this? Can we comply with the Kickstarter guidelines ( http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines) or do we have to setup a paypal or some other payment method to raise more cash for this? -Rudolf O. On 5 July 2012 19:50, Mark Holmquist <[email protected]> wrote: > The FSF admins would like some metrics on your experience hosting a >> minetest server. How much disk space, memory, etc has it used, how much do >> you expect to need? >> > > Well, let's see. My current server has: > > * 1GB total RAM > * 1-core AMD processor of roughly 2GHz power > * About 171MB taken up by the entire minetest directory, including the > world files > > I've run the server on it for quite some time, with very little downtime > that can't be attributed to network issues unrelated to the server itself. > At least one person has said that it's less slow than other servers they've > tried, which is interesting because A) it's such a simple machine and B) > I'm running it behind a DSL connection. > > However, this server has very few mods, and the ones I've loaded were > vetted pretty heavily. It also has very few connections, almost always > fewer than 5 connections at a time. > > If I were to put together an ideal, but still-affordable server for this, > I would probably choose > > * 4GB RAM > * Dual-core processor of at least 2.5 GHz power > * 500GB of disk space available for backups, world maps and archives, and > so on > * Probably safe to make it headless, avoid the overhead of a graphical > environment > > With that setup, I would feel pretty confident in ~20 connections at a > time, possibly more. > > There were some more interesting stress test results relatively recently, > and I think their discovery was that the CPU power was the most limiting > factor. So if you splurge on anything, splurge on a lot of processing > power. The rest should be manageable. > > Link to stress test results: > http://minetest.ru/plot_final.**png<http://minetest.ru/plot_final.png> > > IIRC, that server has 16GB of memory, and some rather nice CPU. You can > see that the RAM was never an issue, but the CPU was problematic even with > a relatively low number of users. > > Hope that's helpful! > > > -- > Mark Holmquist > Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > http://marktraceur.info > > >
