How much dedicated servers in this machine

[matus]

Server OS: CentOS 5.6 x64
Processor: Intel i5 - 4x 2.66 GHz
Ram: 8 GB DDR3
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How much Counter-Strike Source dedicated servers/player slots think this machine could host without problems?

Please don't take in account the bandwith.

Thanks in advance!

[lol554]

i5 = nehalem or sandy bridge?

[matus]

At first is an i5 nehalem, but could go for the sandy bridge one if I liked...

The question is, how much performance would I gain with the sandy?

So, if you could do an estimation in how much servers/slots could go in the nehalem... and how much more in sandy...

Thanks so much.

[Mike]

Well, you should be able to host "more" on the SandyBridge based ones. As they probably are more powerful.

[matus]

Any estimation? 2 x 20 slots, 1 x 20... suppose it's i5 nehalem, thinking the worst case.

Thanks for your answers.

[BehaartesEtwas]

srcds is single threaded so, 1 server per core (4 in total) is possible without interference between them (supposing this automatic overclocking is switched off - which should be for game servers in any case). slotcount per core is difficult to tell (it strongly depends of mods, maps and plugins), but I would suggest more then 20...

[matus]

Well, I'll try to full 4x20 slots server, and ask people if they could play well.

Thanks for your answers, if I get any good conclusion I'll post here.

Anyways, if somebody wants to contribute her own number of srcds servers/slots that think this machine could run, I'd appreciate that.

Thanks for your answers!

[Mike]

I'll just put in my 12 cents, don't run CentOS on it. Run Debian or Ubuntu on it. Much better and easier to maintain.

[lol554]

An i5 Sandy Bridge would probably be able to host 3x20 slots, while the Nehalem version would be able to host 2x20 slots. You really get a lot more performance per Mhz with Sandy Bridge.

[matus]

Ok so, I'll start with 2x20; while no problems appear, I'll increase it to 4x20.

Thanks for the answers.

[lol554]

(09-23-2011, 06:08 PM)matus Wrote:  Ok so, I'll start with 2x20; while no problems appear, I'll increase it to 4x20.

Thanks for the answers.

You are welcome, just remember that the best way to find out, is to test it yourself. :-)