Re: Linux Servers comparison with Windows 2003 servers for Gaming

2007-06-16 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 07:42:50PM +0530, Nobin Mathew wrote: > I am trying to move my Game server from windows to Linux. > > Is this a good idea? > How much better performance i will get? > > Can i fine tune the 2.6.20 kernel to get better performance? > What all areas i can do this fine tuning?

Re: Linux Servers comparison with Windows 2003 servers for Gaming

2007-06-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:35:22AM -0300, Renato S. Yamane wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:42:50 +0530 >>> How much better performance i will get? >> How long is a piece of string. Given you don't give any hardware info, >> any info on the applications run or on the network and c

Re: Linux Servers comparison with Windows 2003 servers for Gaming

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 15 2007 12:47, Renato S. Yamane wrote: >> >> Well, here are some steps: >> 1. boot an Ubuntu livecd >> 2. lspci && lsmod and see what it has detected/loaded >> 3. cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig >> 4. read the help for each "set" option and see what it does (like many >> peo

Re: Linux Servers comparison with Windows 2003 servers for Gaming

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 15 2007 19:42, Nobin Mathew wrote: > > I am trying to move my Game server from windows to Linux. > > Is this a good idea? > How much better performance i will get? Well, since you don't necessarily need to run an X server, there's some more ram available. > > Can i fine tune the 2.6.20 ke

Re: Linux Servers comparison with Windows 2003 servers for Gaming

2007-06-15 Thread Renato S. Yamane
Mihai Donțu wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 17:35, you wrote: E.g. I have a laptop Toshiba M45-S355 (with ReiserFS) and don't have experience to choose what I can remove from kernel (or compile as module/built-in). Well, here are some steps: 1. boot an Ubuntu livecd 2. lspci && lsmod and

Re: Linux Servers comparison with Windows 2003 servers for Gaming

2007-06-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:42:50 +0530 "Nobin Mathew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to move my Game server from windows to Linux. > > Is this a good idea? > How much better performance i will get? How long is a piece of string. Given you don't give any hardware info, any info on the appli

Linux Servers comparison with Windows 2003 servers for Gaming

2007-06-15 Thread Nobin Mathew
I am trying to move my Game server from windows to Linux. Is this a good idea? How much better performance i will get? Can i fine tune the 2.6.20 kernel to get better performance? What all areas i can do this fine tuning? what other things i can do to get better performance? - To unsubscribe fr