Pentium IV 2.8 / 1GB RAM / 120GB Hard Drive / 1000GB Transfer / 5 IPS / Fedora Core 1 /

I would like to run a 16 person SOF2 Server, and potentially a 32 person BFV server.

I would not be running web or sql on this server.

Is this enough? Would I be able to run anthing else game wise?


Thanks :)

Originally posted by willnot
Pentium IV 2.8 / 1GB RAM / 120GB Hard Drive / 1000GB Transfer / 5 IPS / Fedora Core 1 /

I would like to run a 16 person SOF2 Server, and potentially a 32 person BFV server.

I would not be running web or sql on this server.

Is this enough? Would I be able to run anthing else game wise?


Thanks :)

I am not that familiar with BFV, but I would think it should handle that without a problem.

Sirius

What do you think about running a 64 person BFV? Enough?

Might be streching it, your first option, yes :)

That server could probably hold around 50 players at max without any choke and or lag.

BFV tends to use all the CPU you give it. Theres no way you could run a 64 Player on there and the SOF. The 32 Player might just about work.

It should be fine a majority of the time. You may notice a little lag on the SOF server when BFV is full and during map changes. Nothing very major. It won't be full often if it's anything like mine :crying:

64 BFV server and the SOF should be fine. However, some BFV maps and map changes will cause temporary lag. Also, make sure its a 100mbps burstable port. 10 would **** it up

Originally posted by The Broadband Man
64 BFV server and the SOF should be fine. However, some BFV maps and map changes will cause temporary lag. Also, make sure its a 100mbps burstable port. 10 would **** it up

You really have no idea what you are talking about :eek:

1. Those specs cannot handle a 64 player BFV and 16 player SOF server.
2. Myself and several others run popular game servers on 10 Mbps ports with no issues.

You can run a 32 player BFV server and a 16 player SOF2 server, with minimal choke/lag, maybe none.

You cannot run a 64 player BFV server as well as a 16 player SOF2 server on that machine, unless you want to lag everyone out. :(

Stay with a 10Mbps uplink.
Any more than what you said will definetely start to choke the CPU.

I run an AMD 3000+ on Fedora, and I get lag with about 22 players in. So take that advice as you will.

Lots of differing advice here, I'll have to play with it and see what happens. 22 Players seems low for lag on a dedciated, are there other things are work here? Web running? Just curious, I'll see how it goes.

Originally posted by Morgant6911
I run an AMD 3000+ on Fedora, and I get lag with about 22 players in. So take that advice as you will.

If you server is completely dedicated, I seriously doubt this.

thats the plan. Gaming only with the majority of unneeded services disabled. Really nothing else running. Looking at RH9 for the OS, Cpanel will be there, but not doing much.

Running on the old kernel, 2.4, so that might be my problem. No HTTP, MYSQL, or anything but FTP running.

The more stuff you play on the server, the laggier it gets...

Originally posted by Joon
The more stuff you play on the server, the laggier it gets...

NO KIDDING? :rolleyes:

*laughs*

(evades limits)

Battlefield servers, 1942 and its mods, and vietnam have always been cpu hungry. Not so much for ram but anything less than 1gig and your gonna get lag with a quake 3 based game and a battlefield game running on same machine. If at all possible I would toss freebsd 4.10 on it and run the linux BF server on it.

It is in linux compatability mode, but the OS kernel scheduler runs much much better as a pure server, than anything you just load off a linux CD install, and thus you shouldn't see much difference in BF server speed at all. At the same time you get security, better tcp/ip stack, memory management for your deamons and a more responsive ftp.

Watch that uptime soar! Then again a lot of linux guys will say im an a$$hat for saying such things. If you don't opt for freebsd then go with gentoo or mandrake 10.0/10.1 if thats an option. Fedora Core 2 that everyone spouts on and off about just isn't that great.