How many Source Player Slots could I run?

[Mr. Chaos]

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

[Drocona]

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....

[Mr. Chaos]

ok how do you find out player slots to bandwith?

[Drocona]

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)

[Mr. Chaos]

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?

[ssearles]

Mr. Chaos Wrote: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.

[Drocona]

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

[Muppet]

ssearles Wrote: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.

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.

[ssearles]

That's good to know.

[Mr. Chaos]

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?

[Drocona]

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.

[Mr. Chaos]

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?

[Drocona]

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

[skeletor]

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.

[Mr. Chaos]

ok cool thanks for all the great info