dear list, we have been successfully testing red5 for a while running a multiplayer game. we are now planning to go online (thus hoping it will work...). as for now, we have been testing on a ubuntu linux machine with a 2 GHz processor and 2 GB memory which has worked fine for game testing with a maximum of 30 users concurrently connected to the same application(and the same room). does somebody have experience with adapting the server setup for a maximum of 700 concurrent connections (200 concurrent connections is more realistic though, but we have to scale for worst-case)? the mulitplayer game's architecture is similar to that of a chat, supporting different types of communication (1-1, 1-n and 1-all) with two rather small-sized shared objects per user (one for incoming and one for outgoing communication).
I have been thinking of a server with several processors (each 2-2.5 GHz and maybe 4-6 processors) and a large common shared memory of about 4 GB per processor (16-24 GB). of course, the incoming incoming connections need to be dispatched to a processor, but as the connections remain persistent once they have been initiated, this should (hopefully) not be a major problem. could anyone tell me what could be realistic estimates of memory and cpu usage and how to scale this type of a setup? do you have experience with handling 700 concurrent connections on red5? do you believe it is possible at all? please help! :) thanks, muriel _______________________________________________ Red5 mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org
