How many servers can it handle?

[FlyingSpoon]

How many servers can this machine handle?

RAM: 3 GB

Disk: 350 GB

CPU: 4 Cores @ 2.67 GHz

OS: Linux

An estimate?

Some say, 5, some say 20, some say 30

Can someone tell me an exact amount, or an estimate which is close enough as I don't want to overload the machine.

[WhoAmI]

You can't know that. Depends what gamemode servers are using tho. It depends also how many players will play in current server. Hard to say, really.

[bradio10]

Like whats said above, its hard to say really.

Is it a dedicated server or a VPS?

If its dedicated, then it'll run better than a VPS since VPSs are created on a dedicated server which may make it slower than a dedicated server.

[xXMADEXx]

It has a good CPU, but as WhoAmI said, it really depends on what type of gamemodes you're running, and how many players will be on it.

It has a good CPU, but the RAM is pretty low. It is really hard to say. A rough estimate would be probably about 2-3 servers with about 20 players each maybe.

[FlyingSpoon]

Lol,

Last time I ran big game modes on a similar VPS which I hosted 11 servers and they used to get 11 players above without

[Mr_Moose]

For a year I've been hosting on a modified old laptop rebuilt to server with the following specifications:

CPU: 1 core @ 1.4GHz | RAM: 1.25GB (2GB swap) | HDD: 60GB + backup | Bandwidth: 1Gbt/s

The operating system is a downscaled Linux Debian using minimal amount of system resources for maximal performance and beside the standard applications like web, ftp, smb, email etc the following MTA servers is running on this machine:

• Freeroam + GTW-RPG (minimal)
  
• Race + GTW-RPG (minimal)
  
• GTW-RPG (full)
  
• Development (various resources)
  
• Map editor
  
• Some kind of third party role play server, vG maybe.

With around ~10 players on each public server the system resources where used to ~50-60%, idle: ~20%. Now these are all optimized resources and just one little mistake can waste all CPU performance or eat all RAM for you, but if you know enough development to optimize your resources, you can easily host a large amount of servers on that configuration without any lag. And with a fair player amount as well.

Use performance browser and the servers own performance monitor like "top" or "htop" to find out which resource is responsible for wasting your performance. If there is any of course, otherwise you're free to go and start how many servers you want.

[FlyingSpoon]

Thank you for the tip

Your awesome, and I really love your server!

It's awesome, just you know like last need players

But I am sure sooner or later you will get players like-myself I visit your server regularly now!

[Johnny Killstone]

It has a good CPU, but as WhoAmI said, it really depends on what type of gamemodes you're running, and how many players will be on it.

It has a good CPU, but the RAM is pretty low. It is really hard to say. A rough estimate would be probably about 2-3 servers with about 20 players each maybe.

The lack of RAM won't be a bigger issue, it's depending on the game mode as well. Also let's not forget that Linux has a great implementation of virtual memory so you can swap a couple of GB RAM on the hard drive as well. I have limited memory myself but ~20% data on the swap didn't cause much lag for me.

[Mr_Moose]

The lack of RAM won't be a bigger issue, it's depending on the game mode as well. Also let's not forget that Linux has a great implementation of virtual memory so you can swap a couple of GB RAM on the hard drive as well. I have limited memory myself but ~20% data on the swap didn't cause much lag for me.

Default swap size is 2x of the installed RAM depending on the hard disk size. You shouldn't use the swap as a permanent replacement for RAM unless it's needed but a few hundreds of MB could be stored on the swap without bigger issues for sure.

Edited March 30, 2015 by Guest