What I am wondering is just how low you can you go without a noticeable performance hit? How long ago was this piece of code written? When the project first started servers were much slower than they are now. What we are currently running on is dual Opteron 250's and a 100mbit connection with 3TB's of monthly bandwidth. Unless we get a huge playerbase I can't see us using 3TB in a month even if we half the update ratio. I guess what I am asking is, on current available hardware, or something close to my servers stats. Will halving the update ratio have a noticeable impact on the server with say...100 players online.
Server stats Exactly are:
Dual Opteron 250's
Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition
4 Gigs of Ram
10k RPM SCSI HD
100 Mbit Connection. ( Speed Tests I have run are roughly about 40000 kbit Down and 50k-60k kbit up on average )
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