New server on its way!

Discussion in 'Empire News' started by JustinGuy, Oct 29, 2011.

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  1. I have seen it ^_^
    autonamus, Oct 30, 2011
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  2. 64g.jpg
    ;)
    JustinGuy, Oct 30, 2011
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  3. I can see all the blur spots, obviously shopped. ;)
    GameKribJEREMY, Oct 30, 2011
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  4. Beardswell, Oct 30, 2011
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  5. Don't take this the wrong way, but quite frankly you're wasting a huge amount of money on having dual processors. Especially Xeon based.

    Minecraft is, inherently, single-threaded. Even with bukkit, you'll only see 1 or 2 extra thread spawn for the few plugins that support them. The best setup is a single, quad-core proc with the highest clock rate you can get. 64G of memory is also painfully overkill. 32G would (and will) support up to 200 players on a server at any given time.

    With your new server, you'll see the ability to hold about 80-90 people online before you start seeing a collapse of your TPS (Ticks Per Second - you want 20/sec!).

    I'd be surprised if you're spending less than 600/month for this new beast. About 400-450 more than you, realistically, need to.

    You want clock speed more than number of processors/cores available.

    I run a server at work that has 196G of memory. :)
    Ham_Shambler, Oct 30, 2011
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  6. I don't believe that minecraft will be the other thing this server will be running so it's a great investment for more projects that the future will hold.
    autonamus, Oct 30, 2011
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  7. You are correct on all of this. The main thread for Minecraft is single threaded, and does not support multiple threads (yet). We do have other very CPU heavy processes that run on multiple threads, such as all the live map generation (no GPU). Additonaly the GC in Java can use multiple threads, and as with any high memory Java app (especially one that is poorly coded), garbage collection becomes very costly. That is the trade off for the developers not to have to worry about memory management. But yes even then this physical server would be overkill, if you assumed it was only going to run a single instance of a Minecraft server ;)

    You don't scale for today, you scale for tomorrow ;)
    JustinGuy, Oct 30, 2011
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  8. I got 8bg of ram too, and thought that was beast.... This is pure insane!!
    MR2R2M, Oct 30, 2011
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  9. 8GB is beast for a desktop workstation :)
    JustinGuy, Oct 30, 2011
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  10. Justin, just so I can do a quick comaprison, what are the specs of the current server?
    MR2R2M, Oct 30, 2011
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  11. More like a gaming workstation XD ;)
    MR2R2M, Oct 30, 2011
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  12. Psh, it's all about 24
    autonamus, Oct 30, 2011
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  13. Haha I remember the days when a 20GB hard drive was "sick".
    JustinGuy, Oct 30, 2011
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  14. Who knows the specs of the current server?
    MR2R2M, Oct 30, 2011
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  15. Haha, also. Justin I forgot to ask... with the current old server... is the ram duel or tri?
    autonamus, Oct 30, 2011
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  16. Yea, now it getting into the terrabytes, im just waiting for the yota bytes and even the zotabytes!

    XD
    MR2R2M, Oct 30, 2011
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  17. Intel i7 Quad Core 3.4GHz (8mb L3 cache, 5 GT/s FSB)
    16GB DDR3-1333
    250 GB SATA HDD (7200 RPM)
    40GB Intel X25-V SSD
    CentOS 5.6 64-bit

    nevermind my last question, it has to be duel.

    Looking at the CPU specs it must be the i7 950 in which case.,.. you had the ram all wrong.

    EDIT AGAIN.. it could have been the 2600K, my bad. then the ram was fine.
    autonamus, Oct 30, 2011
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  18. Nice! Do you use the SSD for the OS?
    JustinGuy, Oct 30, 2011
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  19. Justin... those are the current server specs... he asked for them, silly goose.
    autonamus, Oct 30, 2011
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  20. Oh yeah lol, I thought they were suspiciously close. I also wondered why you were running Cent for a workstation lol
    JustinGuy, Oct 30, 2011
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