The unknowns: dual cpu's hd's and IP's.

[eXaXXion]

kimball Wrote:What are the fastest best performance harddrives?

I already wrote it in my post. SCSI 15K RPM U320 146GB Seagate Cheetah Harddrives are one of the fastest and the largest harddrives available on the market today. I only use these. By the way, when you get these harddrives, make sure they are U320, not U160. Also, make sure they are 15K, not 10K. Oh another important thing. Make sure you get the right pin. There's 68 pin and 80 pin.

[kimball]

Thanks.

[eXaXXion]

You also need a good SCSI cable
If you are getting more than one SCSI cable, don't forget to assign them ID's so that they don't conflict with each other.

To answer your original question, 2GB ram is enough to run about 18~20 steam servers. I use 8GB ram on one of my servers and it never even reaches 3GB with 30 game servers.

[Hollanda]

Stealth Wrote:

Hollanda Wrote:Harddrive is not an issue with gameservers concerning speed. Sata wil do just fine. If you got enough to invest go for raptors or scsi in raid1.

i disagree! quake 3 engine loves to spike the cpu and HDD when changing map as it loads all of the pk3's and if you have dual processors you will likely be hosting more servers ... thus more hard drive reads!

Average RAM we tend to use is 1.5gb in "older" machines and 2gb minimum in the newer ones (xeon, amd 64bit etc) but for dual processors you would want to have more than 2gb to be safe or you will start paging

That's only for the time of the mapchange. Scsi is a totally different price range than sata. What you can do to reduce ram usage is restart all gameservers during nighthours.

Scsi is really designed for webserver and database usage, not gameservers. For gameservers you just need harddisks that can serve large files (mapfiles) fast in system memory. Sata raptor will do just fine.

[kimball]

What is that command line option for linux that sets an autorestart time for the server?

[chconline]

You will run out of CPU a lot faster than RAM. CPU is priority, RAM is second. Hard drive, its data redudancy that counts more than one large disk

[cryotek]

I'd like to once again point out that ex is a moron (even though this post is old) SAS is faster than SCSI.