Running FL Server on a dedicated low spec PC

Mon Apr 28, 2003 12:26 pm by terence darby

I have a 450MHz AMD K6-III PC with 128MB RAM running Win98SE. It's on a 11Mbit wireless connection onto a router with a 600Kbit broadband connection.

2 questions.

1. Is this is a suitable config for a dedicated Freelance server? Nothing else running on it.
2. What would be a suitable max number of players?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

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Tue Apr 29, 2003 2:36 pm by Dayblade

We have a Pentium II 400 currently running ours behind a full T-1 and I am going to say that the CPU in both scenarios are the limiting factor.

I took a screen shot of what 3 peeps looks like in ours, and I would have to think that all 3 were involved in some sort of dog fight in their respective systems.

CPU utilization hit 90%. I then began to lag and low and behold was destroyed before hitting anything to try and save myself.

I am curious if anyone has got a formula yet to say x Mhz processor = # of people in the game.

Anyone?

Dayblade

Tue Apr 29, 2003 7:07 pm by qAPLAh

Our server is a P2 Celeron @450MHZ, 368MB Ram and has 99% CPU load when populated with 6 players.

Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:44 pm by bRydeR

The main constraint on Freelancer servers, at least for the moment until they patch FLServer.exe to support larger numbers of users without crashing, is primarily CPU and secondly RAM.

A K6-300 with so little RAM is certainly not up to the job - at most you might get one or two users connected before suffering from lag.

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>bRydeR<

Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:43 pm by genedefect

On my 3.06 Ghz I use for my server, I am running about 50% CPU with 45 players.

Now at first glance it would appear that 30mHz per player is needed, but I have also found that just running the server takes up about 15% of the CPU, even before I get players logged in. Also, I am running Hyperthreaded which the FLServer does utilize.

My best estimate is a 450mhz to 600 mhz just to run the server with a small group of friends. After that you are looking at about 20mHz per additional player.

Now, don't try to run over 45 players on a box until the patch comes out. At 45 players my server is only using once again, 50% CPU, but it is also only using less than half of my upstream of 768k. If I up it to 50 players, the FLServer application itself starts to freek out and usually takes itself down shortly there after.

If you have anymore questions, let me know.

Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:07 am by Dayblade

Is that 50% on both processors? (HT Enabled)

Dayblade

Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:58 am by genedefect

Yes it splits the usage equally across both.

I haven't tried with HT disabled yet. If you would like I can switch off HT tonight and get you some perf #'s for that.

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