I and some other admins I speak to have the Q6600. It's been a dream for us and the server hasn't even broken a sweat with the multiple servers we run. I'd say "number of tf2 players possible", but we haven't had a problem even with our two tf2 servers entirely full.
-Atreus On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Bruce Potter <gd...@shmoo.com> wrote: > Howdy, > Quick (but I'm sure not simple) question regarding processor choice. > I've been running some TF2 servers (and now L4D servers as well) on an > AMD-based server with CentOS for a while. Currently have 2 x dual > core 2.8GHz previous-gen Opterons in the box. FYI, the machine is on > a 100Mbps connection in a datacenter with way more connectivity than > that so I'm not at all bandwidth constrained. > > After much tuning, I'm still not happy with the overall performance. > On TF2 every user takes up about 5% CPU on a core. After 12-14 users > (depending on the map) I start to use enough CPU (50-80%) that I get > nervous about choke and other performance issues. 20 or so would > probably be the limit on this hardware. It's not a very popular > server so we've never hit the limit. ;) > > I'm looking at building a second box for more TF2 servers. I've heard > anecdotally that Intel systems run SRCDS _much_ better than AMD > hardware. At this point I have to believe it b/c while this Opteron > system isn't top of the line, it's plenty quick for other purposes > I've thrown at the same hardware (database, web, etc). So I'm going > to give a run at Intel hardware. > > The new server I'm building isn't going to be racked, however, so I > have some flexibility in hardware options. What I'm trying to assess > at this point is the difference in performance between a core 2 duo, > an i7, and a xeon proc when it comes to SRCDS. > > I'm hoping to do a head to head on all these setups in a bit (I've got > access to a lot of systems) but I don't have time to test them out > right now. Any advice on # of TF2 slots on various hardware ppl have > would be very much appreciated. > > Thanks > > bruce > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
