PERFORMANCE ISSUES
You are not allowed to drive on a dedicated server, and no 3D graphics
or sound is generated, so a pretty small machine should be capable of
hosting fairly large fields.
It sounds great but it's a bit vague. What spped CPU have people
found as a minimium requirement to serve a 20-30 car field?
I run a 15-20 car field on a Celeron 450 MHz with 128 MB of ram. The cpu
stayes below 25%, except for short peaks to about 50% when a player joins
in.
It is quite slow to load the track, but that does not harm the event.
Drivers who are online when the track is selected will have to wait a bit
before the button to enter the track turns green.
So extrapolating, a 200 MHz machine should be up to it easily, and even a
133 MHz might pull it.
Bart Westra
> So extrapolating, a 200 MHz machine should be up to it easily, and even a
> 133 MHz might pull it.
We had a Duron 500 with 128 MB of RAM at first and this was not an
adequate config even for 15 cars. We had quite a bit of warping,
especially at the start of a race, and with 25 cars in the start warp
for example was so long that there were severe start accidents.
The system was overall slow to react, but also there were usually
several smaller (but still long enough to be annoying) warps during
Practice and Race, and other little niggleties.
Not being so experienced with dedicated servers we thought it's the line
or connection somehow, but then we installed an XP1800 and 512 MB of RAM
an all our problems were gone as if the wind had blown them away.
No warps at all anymore, system responds very quickly now, it's a really
good server for the fields we have (20 to 25 drivers).
My personal opinion is therefor that I'd recommend at least a Duron 1200
or higher.
Achim
>The system was overall slow to react, but also there were usually
>several smaller (but still long enough to be annoying) warps during
>Practice and Race, and other little niggleties.
>Not being so experienced with dedicated servers we thought it's the line
>or connection somehow, but then we installed an XP1800 and 512 MB of RAM
>an all our problems were gone as if the wind had blown them away.
>No warps at all anymore, system responds very quickly now, it's a really
>good server for the fields we have (20 to 25 drivers).
>My personal opinion is therefor that I'd recommend at least a Duron 1200
>or higher.
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> > So extrapolating, a 200 MHz machine should be up to it easily, and even
a
> > 133 MHz might pull it.
> Usually when Bart speaks up about such issues I'd humbly shut up, but
> this is very much different from my own experience.
> We had a Duron 500 with 128 MB of RAM at first and this was not an
> adequate config even for 15 cars. We had quite a bit of warping,
> especially at the start of a race, and with 25 cars in the start warp
> for example was so long that there were severe start accidents.
> The system was overall slow to react, but also there were usually
> several smaller (but still long enough to be annoying) warps during
> Practice and Race, and other little niggleties.
> Not being so experienced with dedicated servers we thought it's the line
> or connection somehow, but then we installed an XP1800 and 512 MB of RAM
> an all our problems were gone as if the wind had blown them away.
> No warps at all anymore, system responds very quickly now, it's a really
> good server for the fields we have (20 to 25 drivers).
> My personal opinion is therefor that I'd recommend at least a Duron 1200
> or higher.
> Achim
In one other case, server activity stopped for a short while, and then
continued normally. I don't even have a theory about that one....
All this is with the TA mod activated. I have no experience with NR2003
plain.
Bart
