slots calculations, can't understand lol

[nizoo]

well I have been trying to find a decent rate on what will run number of slots and stuff, and ever singel time I hear different from people.. so I guess am going to give my spaces and maybe someone could help me out..

Double Xeon 2.8 GHz (Quad 2.8 GHz I guess)
4GB RAM
100mbit connection

for some reason my connection seems to only be 10mbit, I hope my colocation company isn't ripping me off, does speedtest.net give accurate rates ? thx!

cuz am getting this...

[Renagade]

Speedtest one of the trust worthy ones

[nizoo]

good to know, time to stop the bullshit with my host then and maybe co-locate it to somewhere else if they don't hook me up with the 100 mbit.

[CrimsonGT]

You will run out of bandwidth before you cap out on max players. Depending on what game, a quad xeon will hold quite a bit. However, you will probably be pushing around 10mbps if not more with it full.

Who are you colocating with?

[nizoo]

CSS and L4D servers, its not an actual quad but its two duals, which I guess makes it quad, I don't get it ? what do you mean by pushing around 10bps if not more with it full?

am colocating with a company in my hometown, somewhat partner of RIM.

[Drocona]

I'll give you some current accurate rates you can use:

33 tickrate: 40kbps per player (increments the more slots you get, 30 slots will use like 80kbps per player)
66 tickrate: 96kbps per player (same as above, 30 players will do about 160kbps per slot)
100 tickrate: 130kbps per player (same as above, 20 players (100tick cap) will do maximum of 200kbps per player)

That CPU sounds like a Pentium4 based Xeon, which is most likely 2 physical CPU's with SINGLE cores, so 2 CPU's total.
That holds like a total of 60-70 slots running @ 100 tickrate.

A 100 mbit connection holds around 650 slots running 100 tickrate, you won't be maxing that with the current available CPU's

[nizoo]

sounds very very good, much thanks man!


anywyas just an another question, why do I see this here :S


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[Mooga]

The "hyper threads" must show as a processor.

[nizoo]

when I right click on MyComputer I see this, "Windows Server Standard without Hyper-V"

[Drocona]

Can you get the actual full name of the server processor?

If it's an Exxx or Xxxx it's one of the new quad core xeons
if it isn't it's a pentium 4 based with hyperthreading or it "might" actually have 4 physical CPU's OR even 2 dualcore pentium xeons.....

Anyway, you'll have to figure that out, my best guess is on the hyperthreading part.