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Oklahoma Eq
02-16-2002, 04:52 PM
Would like an educated answer on this not just a guess please.

I am currently running a p3 900 with 512mb ram. On an OC3. This is a dedicated server with no other function in life than to be my public EQ server. My question is how many Zones and players should this setup be able to handle stably? (Well as stable as can be expected)

oh and when is the next release expected?

Thank you
Jason

Stud
02-16-2002, 06:21 PM
Is this off the core routers? or back behind the dmz somewhere?

Trumpcard
02-17-2002, 02:20 AM
Well, lets make some educated attempts here..

1 OC3 - You have all the bandwidth you'll probably need.
2 P900 - Little low end on the processor scale if you ask me, but probably sufficient to handle a decent number of concurrent zones
3 512 meg ram - Once again, a fair amount of ram, but this will get gobbled up when you start to run 20-30 zones populated with people running around in them.

My guess would be that with that box, you can run a fairly large world. As the code gets more optimized , who knows. Now, if we keep the linux version up too snuff, you could probably host off a much bigger world off of it. Linux's memory management and access to virtual memory are much more efficient. Plus. it runs in much less resources (Windoze just eats sooo much memory running its own system processes).

There's my educated 'guess'. As no one is running a big, dedicated eq world right now (everything is a testbed pretty much), I dont think you will get an answer until someone actually does it, gets alot of concurrent accesses, and posts their findings.

- The next release is expected to be available when they post it too sourceforge.

Oklahoma Eq
02-17-2002, 03:39 AM
First Thanks for your replies

2nd Stud this box is WIDE OPEN it is on a public MCI ip addy, no router,no nuthin. i had a guy somewhere around Baltimore tracert it and he had 17 hops with an average ping on 80ms

3rd Trumpcard thanks foor your input. i was hoping one of the dev team or such might let me know what the are running the gotfrags server so i would have a compairison. i agree that the *nix will be faster. thanks again.
Jason

cbreaker
02-17-2002, 08:06 AM
And before you go live, put a firewall up man! =P