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@coliver said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@thwr said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@coliver said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@thwr said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@coliver said in Looking for a high performance game server:

Is this Arma? Seems like Arma specs for some reason.

Gotcha

Ah. I've run it on Vultr before... I only had 6 players so I didn't need so much performance.

I know they have high frequency systems that get some pretty killer single core performance.

https://www.vultr.com/products/high-frequency-compute/

But the two big Arma communities that I know collocate their servers.

yeah... it's more like 80 players and a freaking amount of AI.

Yeah. Wish someone would write a plugin to offload the AI to a dedicated client.

That's what the headless client does. It's actually a "micro-server" where one can offload at least a part of the AI stuff. But it doesn't scale very well.

88888 isn't that far away

@coliver said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@thwr said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@coliver said in Looking for a high performance game server:

Is this Arma? Seems like Arma specs for some reason.

Gotcha

Ah. I've run it on Vultr before... I only had 6 players so I didn't need so much performance.

I know they have high frequency systems that get some pretty killer single core performance.

https://www.vultr.com/products/high-frequency-compute/

But the two big Arma communities that I know collocate their servers.

yeah... it's more like 80 players and a freaking amount of AI.

we're running 5 gameservers + a number of headless clients on the i9. Two large Gitlab-instances, 2x rocket.chat and a few other workloads like Nextcloud and custom apps.

Plan is to move everything but the gameservers to smaller hosted VMs, like DigitalOcean, Vulture, Hetzner etc.

@coliver said in Looking for a high performance game server:

Is this Arma? Seems like Arma specs for some reason.

Gotcha

Looking around for a high performance (in terms of single thread performance) game server. We're using a Core i9-9900K with NVMe SSDs and enough RAM at the moment, which is pretty good, but the machine has some serious issues. Reboots without any reason at random times in different conditions (0% load, 10% load, 100% load). No log entries at all. Looks like a hard reset to me, not a clean reboot.

Hoster doesn't accept our problem reports, so it's time to move on. Shouldn't be a big deal because 100% of our workloads are dockerized, even the game servers itself.

Suggestions? I'm looking for something like...

• 8th Gen Intel Core or Xeon or newer, at least 6 cores - the game engine doesn't like AMD
• 4,0 GHz core frequency or more - the game engine is pretty old and we need every MHz
• 16GB of RAM, 64GB preferred
• 512GB Storage or more, SATA or NVMe SSD

@scottalanmiller said in How does name resolution work in AD?:

@thwr said in How does name resolution work in AD?:

A client first polls his lmhosts-file. Next is always DNS.

Always HOSTS before DNS.

ah, my bad. hosts is correct, lmhosts is something even older

Abusing post #77777

Moved to https://mangolassi.it/topic/21171/looking-for-a-high-performance-game-server

A client first polls his hosts-file. Next is always DNS. If that doesn't work, WINS might kick in (you better don't run WINS).

If all that fails, the client will fall back to whatever he has available on his side, like NetBIOS.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Talking to a guy in a gaming community... told him that 40°C / 104°F idle temperature is anything but a good result on a Core i9 9900k (not to mention that this CPU is a total overkill for gaming).

seems a little hot...

a "little".

Wonder what would be causing that much heat

That's easy: Misaligned cooler, not enough or too much thermal compound.

Yeah, that would make sense
I thought he was running google chrome with 120 tabs open... LOL

Nope. Values measured in UEFI

Heaven... he now wants to buy an even bigger cooler. Big coolers are a large threat for a mainboard because of the force that applies to the CPU socket and the PCB.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Talking to a guy in a gaming community... told him that 40°C / 104°F idle temperature is anything but a good result on a Core i9 9900k (not to mention that this CPU is a total overkill for gaming).

seems a little hot...

a "little".

Wonder what would be causing that much heat

That's easy: Misaligned cooler, not enough or too much thermal compound.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Talking to a guy in a gaming community... told him that 40°C / 104°F idle temperature is anything but a good result on a Core i9 9900k (not to mention that this CPU is a total overkill for gaming).

seems a little hot...

a "little".

Talking to a guy in a gaming community... told him that 40°C / 104°F idle temperature is anything but a good result on a Core i9 9900k (not to mention that this CPU is a total overkill for gaming).

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

God speed

sometimes...

First thought: "Guys, he got his appendix removed. It's not like he's starting his last journey" Anyway, gute Besserung.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Setting up a new pc for a client.

That’s a lot of flash drives.

Going to be making a bunch of 1909 drives to speed updates on tech laptops in the field.

Reminds me of this guy who "demonstrated" ZFS RAID using tons of USB flash drives. Wasn't this video, but something like that:

Youtube Video

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning everyone!

Morning? Already made an apple pie, visited my parents, went shopping and just got back

Here, something to play with:

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_PhysicalMemory | Select-Object Manufacturer,@{Name="Size (GB)"; Expression={[math]::round($_.Capacity/1GB, 2)}},Configuredclockspeed,Banklabel,Devicelocator,Serialnumber | Format-Table -AutoSize

Also works (like many other things in PowerShell) on remote machines

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_PhysicalMemory -ComputerName xxx | Select-Object Manufacturer,@{Name="Size (GB)"; Expression={[math]::round($_.Capacity/1GB, 2)}},Configuredclockspeed,Banklabel,Devicelocator,Serialnumber | Format-Table -AutoSize

Source:

• https://sid-500.com/2017/07/05/powershell-show-memory-ram-by-manufacturer-speed-serial-number-and-capacity/
• https://4sysops.com/archives/convert-bytes-to-gigabytes-with-powershell/

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Everything Slowed wayyy down as of 20 minutes ago.

Like... workload slowed down? Or the computers are dying?

ML is slow.

Ah, I've been on the phone. That must be it.

Your spamming skill knowledge transfer rate was better a few years ago

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Everything Slowed wayyy down as of 20 minutes ago.

Like... workload slowed down? Or the computers are dying?

ML is slow.