Q2 mod Game Server - hardware specs?
i am considering renting a linode vps for a q2 mod called digital paint: paintball2. I will be hosting a small tournament series and am looking to drop my current host for someone more reliable with more options.
I was wondering if anyone knew what the hardware specs were for the nj location? ex. processors, processor speed, etc.
Much Thanks
–- Vague
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Each VPS has a guaranteed CPU share, which is fully burstable.
Here's my /proc/cpuinfo from newark 77:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 2500.086
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 3
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 lahf_lm
bogomips : 5000.17
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
From talking with a few members of the DP community i think this system might work. I guess the only way to see if it works is to grab one and give it a try. Either way this should be a fun venture being i have no clue what im doing with linux lol.
That said, I used to run a Quake 3 server off my dual Celeron 366s, so I think it'll work just fine. I think you'd have to have everybody pegging their CPU for that to be a problem.
@Xan:
You never know when somebody will fire off a Gentoo compile, somebody else will start running another Quake server, etc.
I would assume that CPU bursts would be handled fairly, and even then, they may not be using the same cores as you, so perhaps this might not be such a large problem.
Of course if many people started doing CPU intensive activities all at one, my point is invalid. I guess that would be unlikely though.
Your results may vary, but check out the following posts:
http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3020
Thanks,
Smark
much thanks for the input everyone.
–- Vague