Here are my spec's on the box i want to get


2 Dual Core AMD Opteron® 2212; 2.0GHz,2X1MB Cache,1Ghz HyperTransport

Memory 6GB, 667MHz, 4x512MB and 4x1GB Single Ranked DIMMs

2 160GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps

I want to run more CS:S servers but I will run others like HL2: DM Garry's Mod and DOD:S But want to know How many Players Slots.

Thanks

I think somewhere around 100-150 or so, I'm not that familiar with AMD speeds
If it's on a non limited 100mbit line that is....

This post was last modified: 09-08-2007 08:50 AM by Drocona.

ok how do you find out player slots to bandwith?

well a 33 tick server will use around 5KB/s per player (that's 40kbps)
66 uses around 10KB/s per player (80kbps)
100 around 15KB/s per player (120kbps)

note that the more players you have, the bandwidth increases exponentially, for example a busy 66 tick server (like 24 players) can easily make 20KB/s per player (160kbps)

Ok thank you that is some good info, now how do i find a good way to check how many slots the hardware can take?

FYI Last night my TF2 servers were full 2x24 slots 48 slots total. Total upstream bandwidth 3.2mbps so 66KB/slot. We are running 100 tic.

That's 8KB/s and 66Kbps (different things )

Just to let you know, 100 tick for TF2 is a waste of resources right now. TF2 has a bug where it can't do 100 tick and can only just reach 66 tick.

That's good to know.

what i want to know is the how did you come up with 100-150 players slots? that is what i want to know players to hardware?

It's just a quick estimate, I know from experience what certain processors can run on average. I know a C2D E6600 can run 100slots for example, P4 3.0GHz can get 60, etc etc.

I think I misread your specs, cause you have 2x opteron so that's 4 cores total, am I right?
That case you should be able to get 150 slots I think.

Since every machine is different you can't tell exact numbers.

yes you are right it does have 4 cores. so 150 slots should run with no problem, now because it has fir cores do i assign a 32 man server to one of the cores in fire daemon or just let windows do that?

always set it your own cause windows always manages to fuck up

Well mainly i think windows doesn't really worry about setting a process to a different core unless the core if at 100%. but with game servers thats wayy too late. Setting affinity is more like a proactive approach. Windows doesn't know how much resources the srcds.exe process is going to need until it needs it. Then again thats to late.

ok cool thanks for all the great info