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[marcus]

hey guys and girls just registerd to you're awesome site its saved me alot of sleepless nights but i have a couple of questions not sure which part to put them in so i thought id slam them in srcds General . Right im getting a quad core dedi with 4 gb ram anyone have any rough ideas as to what this will hold comfortably ? will have windows server 2003 for os, secondly im wanting to run a fairly big public server 40-64 slots now someone mentioned to me i had to make the spawns bigger or something but im a newbie at that how do you do it ? also what tickrate would u run the server ?. thats about it for now thankfor for answering any of my questions in advance and nice sire here once again

[Drocona]

What you can hold really depends on what quad core you get, mind that if you only want 1 big server you need 1 FAST core, SRCDS is still NOT multi threaded so it will only use 1 core at the time.

I'm not sure myself how to create more spawnpoints, I'm sure there's a tutorial somewhere on the internet, cause there are loads of servers that have it. But yeah I think there are 18 spawnpoints for each side standard so... you need more

If the server has less than 18 players you CAN use 100 tickrate, since it's on the internet I recommend 66, less resource usage, less bandwdith, same gameplay.
Server with less than 32 players you CAN use 66 tickrate.
Server with more than 32 players you HAVE to use 33 tickrate, if you go higher weird lag starts to show.

[marcus]

the cpu in question is a core 2 q6600 ill probably stick to 66 tickrate cept for the match servers im planning to run on it seeing as people will moan that its not 100 tick bla bla not that i notice any difference either

[Drocona]

You will probably get close to 200 slots on that processor, since my E6600 (2 cores) reaches 100.

[marcus]

ah sweet should i bother setting affinity , seeing as my dedi provider says hed just let windows handle it , i trust his opinion but not 100% sold on letting windows handle it

[Drocona]

You should always set the affinity to a processor and divide the servers to an equal amount per processor, if you let windows do it it WILL lag and stress a core to 100% which is exactly what you do NOT want.

For example you run 6 servers, 4x 16 slots and 2x 20.
core0 gets 1x 16 and most of the system programs.
core1 gets 1x 16 and 1x 20.
core2 gets 1x 16 and 1x 20
core3 gets 1x 16

just try to divide the processes as much as possible, without the affinity set I'm sure you won't get more than 80 slots out of that server.

[marcus]

i was actually thinking all the windows processes etc on one core with a 33 tick cs pro mod server
then sticking all my other servers on the other cores , but thanks for ya advice drocona confirmed what i was going to do

[marcus]

i know this is double posting etc but does anyone have a link to server checker that works ? , as i cant find it spent 3 hours looking for it , my quads running nice but id like something to give them a lil reboot at 5 am etc while im in bed .

[Drocona]

Someone uploaded it a while back:

http://rapidshare.com/files/21448777/ServerChecker.rar.html

[marcus]

excellent thanks