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kawika
08-07-2005, 05:39 PM
Someone explained to me when I first started reading about EQEmu and the software that the code is geared toward multiple CPUs. Is this true? If so, if I compile say 6.0DR2 from source on that machine using Windows 2003 Server, will it compile to use all of my 4 processors or will it look at it as 1? Would using Linux make a noticeable difference? I've searched the forums and only found one post remotely close and he was asking if his server would be sufficient and I realize it is, just curious about the coding and a little more technical aspect of things.

Thanks in advance.
fathernitwit
08-14-2005, 01:34 PM
its geared towards many cpus because it uses a lot of threads and a lot of seperate processes... nothing special you need to do.
kawika
08-14-2005, 03:37 PM
Thank you for the reply. The only thread I'd found was one asking if his machine was sufficient. Good to know there's nothing I need to do to take advantage of it.
sdabbs65
08-15-2005, 12:33 AM
Thank you for the reply. The only thread I'd found was one asking if his machine was sufficient. Good to know there's nothing I need to do to take advantage of it.

I would think if you hosted MYSQL on another server it would be very laggy ?
I never tried it but I would guess it would eat up bandwith like crazy...
anyone done this yet ?
kawika
08-15-2005, 02:11 AM
Did it sound like I was talking about hosting my mysql server on a seperate machine? If so, that's not at all what I meant. The box in my closet has 4 processors, it's a Compaq Proliant server.

I tried putting my mysql server on my webhost's machine when I first started with eqemu and it took forever for world.exe and zone.exe to load. I did it just to see what would happen.
cofruben
08-15-2005, 02:18 AM
that's normal...mysql database should be in the same computer, or at least in the same LAN (it is not recommended anyways), or it can be way slow to load, there are a lot of data.
Willaena
08-16-2005, 05:04 PM
We have our lan set up so that the eq databases are on my machine, but either machine can run world.exe and the various zone.exe's.

I have not noticed any major lag, or to be more precise, the lag that comes from running the worldserver and zone servers, plus 2 clients, on a machine with 512RAM is worse than the lag that comes from running the worldserver and zoneservers on the second machine, running the mysql database and 2 clients on the fast machine.