Re: [Unreal-users] Users limit?

[The N. (Stskeeps) <cm...@dr...>]

My 50mhz 486 with 8 mb RAM fell to the ground at 33.000 users :P
took like 20 minutes with swapping in/out to get up at 33.000 users :P

My 233mhz 128 mb ram shallowed it all in 30 secs with no lag =P


On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Jonathan Morton wrote:

> >irc.superonline.com, 5500 users. Works fine and isnt incredibly lagged. I
> >tried making a network with 250.000 users yesterday. Used 100 MB ram and
> >had a process loop on 14.7% CPU. It can _easily_ take that much -
> >especially Unreal3.1, which is delayed to 14th-16th atm :P
> 
> Hehehehe, now that is good.  Just make sure your servers can handle the
> number of TCP sockets required.
> 
> I notice that in the Linux world the concept of "minimum system
> requirements" is almost a moot concept - after all I have a 25MHz 486 with
> 'only' 28Mb RAM acting as an extremely functional server, with quite decent
> performance, for the bunch of about 10 computers that myself and my
> flatmate own.  It has even run Unreal and IRC Services in the past (with an
> almost zero user-count, and it took a few seconds to establish a connection
> with it, but it worked fine).  I wouldn't even consider trying to run
> Windoze NT on that system, let alone any kind of server on top.
> 
> The high performance under amazingly heavy load (thanks for the example)
> using up-to-date hardware is simply the result of combined scalability and
> efficiency.  I wonder how many users my PowerBook G3 with 320Mb RAM would
> be able to handle...
> 
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