How powerfull of a computer(s) you guys run on?
 

I am just wondering what speed computers you guys run your servers on. dule processor? how much ram? what speed connection?

Dual processors will do nill for EQEmu i'm afraid. EQEmu was not built to support multiple processors (although i'm sure it will RUN on a multi system but it wont use both).

btw, EQemu doesnt need much more than 200 mhz to run lol.. so going out to by a 7000$ system is a waste (goto a yard sale)..

What you need to invest in, is RAM.. ram ram and RAAAAAMMMMMMM

How much ram are we talking about for how many zones with how many pcs/npcs?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shawn319
[B]Dual processors will do nill for EQEmu i'm afraid. EQEmu was not built to support multiple processors (although i'm sure it will RUN on a multi system but it wont use both).

The world server creates threads.
Any threaded application has the ability to be benefitted from multiple processors.

However, only the unix port is threaded.

Actually, a multiprocessor system would be a benefit, you could bind indivudual zone servers to seperate processors.

This isnt particular important now, but it could be later when more CPU intensive operations are being performed (like AI).

512+ ram per computer heh (plus a lot of virtual memory)

My latesest DB has each zone.exe using 22 to 27 MB

5 x 25 =125
world 10?
mysql 30 (has the db there too after all)
windows 90

So I estimate that with 5 zones running your end up using a full 256 MB and for every 5 additional zones another 125 MB.


These are ROUGH guestimates, and vary with size of your DB.

Once advanced AI starts to happen and all that, lets say when its 'done', how much are we looking at? 300'ish per zone? (depending on the zone)

Couldnt even begin to guess. Depends on what type of AI system they use.

Lurker also please take to note not only the operating system, but memory leaks, and having to calculate equations, storing player profiles in memory, it all adds up :)

http://www.flipcode.com/tutorials/tut_memleak.shtml

Neat bit of code in there for finding memory leaks...


The coolest tool is

http://www.compuware.com/products/de...ualc/index.htm


These are the guys that made Numega SoftIce.. Nifty little tool that integrated into the IDE to help you track memory leaks, and do performance profiling. Havent messed with their new stuff, but SoftIce rocked..

Thx il look into this...

You can run on a single 733MHz with only 512Mb of RAM. This a simple 5 zone server setup with MySQL and EQ.
However you might notice a litle bit of network lag unless you use the task manager to set the priority of EQ down one level.

The ideal setup is where you have all your zone servers on separate machines on your LAN. This also helps when trying to debug the code. :)
My development machine is a duel 2GHz with 1Gb RAM and dual montiors.

-Edit- Spelling :p

Ok... Now I'm drooling...

How do you get any work done with your CPUs and monitors dueling all the time?