Probably been asked before and beaten to death - if so, perhaps someone could point me at some info resources on this... But:
I have read what seems to be a reasonable model for determining the bandwidth to player requirements - but I am wondering if anyone has captured any info pertaining to the number of concurrent game servers running on a single host. Assuming a 100Mbps 2-hop connection to a primary pipe provider and, say, 80% bandwidth utilization, it would seem that the theoretical maximum number of concurrent SRCDS players would be in the order of 1600 give or take. So, using very simplistic arithmetic - I would arrive at a bandwidth constraint of about 100 * 1.6 = 160 concurrent srcds instances on one link - assuming a playerslot utilization of 60%. So now, the question is, what kind of iron would you need to support that number of concurrent games? I know this can be an apples and oranges kind of a deal - but what have various admins been able to achieve in terms of maximum concurrent games per host with acceptable game play performance? Where do you hit the wall? Iron or bandwidth? Maybe answers in this kind of format would help establish some baseline uniformity: Processor family and speed # of Processors (btw, how responsive is SRCDS performance to multi processors configs?) Physical memory OS Fps and tickrate Average playerslot utilization (how full are the games, approximately) I would be very interested in the community's opinions regarding this question (how much iron would it take?) Back to the multi-processor item for a sec... What impact does a dual processor config actually have on SRCDS performance - and what kind of things can be done to take advantage of the extra horses? Final question: does anyone have any comments about the impact of popular mods (say ManiAdmin)on host capacity and game performance, generally? Cheers, Frazer _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
