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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Viperius on February 11, 2010, 07:53:36 AM

Title: AH Server stats
Post by: Viperius on February 11, 2010, 07:53:36 AM: On what system does the AH Server run?

Hardwareconfig and OS.
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: Skuzzy on February 11, 2010, 07:58:34 AM: All the game servers are Xeon based. Solaris is used for the OS.
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: RTHolmes on February 11, 2010, 07:58:47 AM: never crashes, must be *nix ;)
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: gyrene81 on February 11, 2010, 09:24:34 AM: Quote from: RTHolmes on February 11, 2010, 07:58:47 AM
never crashes, must be *nix ;)
With Solaris, I'm truly surprised...must be v10 pre-Oracle.
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: Skuzzy on February 11, 2010, 09:52:06 AM: I have never had a Solaris box crash. Then again, most of that has to do with proper configuration and the hardware used. I have never had any UNIX based box crash and I think I have used every version available over the last 20+ years, starting with UNIX v6.

It could also be I have been doing this for so long, I take for granted all the things I do to configure a UNIX box.
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: 1701E on February 11, 2010, 10:02:41 AM: Quote from: RTHolmes on February 11, 2010, 07:58:47 AM
never crashes, must be *nix ;)

They make up for it by having Skuzz trip over cords every 2 weeks. :D
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: Viperius on February 11, 2010, 10:12:52 AM: Skuzzy, Sun or HP Systems?

Solaris 10 or the older Solaris 9 or even dare I say it 8? :)

I am a system engineer working for Sun and everyday I throw out tons of "old" hardware, is HTC in need of some hw that could boost the performace on titanic? :D
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: Skuzzy on February 11, 2010, 10:44:54 AM: The server running Titanic has no issues with keeping up with the load. Worse case it hits about 1.2% utilization.

I built all the servers we use. All based on some form of a SuperMicro motherboard. All with wide Seagate SCSI Cheetah HD's.

I would be happier if AT&T would upgrade the LAN to 1Gb. That would help more than anything else.
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: Kazaa on February 15, 2010, 04:58:46 AM: 1.2%! Jesus.
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: zack1234 on February 15, 2010, 07:02:10 AM: Viper I thought you worked in a chocolate factory! :old:
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: ZetaNine on February 15, 2010, 11:06:49 AM: as is evident...I'm not too much of a computer knowledgeable guy...sadly... but I always wondered...when I used to work at radio stations back in the day...most always had triple redundancy in the event of service outages.... does aces high have that kind of thing too?
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: Skuzzy on February 15, 2010, 11:17:51 AM: We have a gang of servers at the colo facility. If any one of the servers is not able to handle its load, for whatever reason, we can move the arenas around to accomodate it. That is all done remotely.
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: Bino on February 15, 2010, 02:29:48 PM: Quote from: Skuzzy on February 11, 2010, 10:44:54 AM
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I would be happier if AT&T would upgrade the LAN to 1Gb. That would help more than anything else.

<voice, value=envious>

Wow. Your CPU use is very, very low. So network bandwidth is your only real "limit" ?

</voice>
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: Skuzzy on February 15, 2010, 03:42:54 PM: Not entirely. We are more packet bound than data bound on the LAN.

The real problem is the Internet itself.
Title: Re: AH Server stats
Post by: skopro on February 15, 2010, 11:26:17 PM: Quote from: Skuzzy on February 15, 2010, 11:17:51 AM
We have a gang of servers at the colo facility.

well since i live in colorado, could we just make that the primary :D