Geared Toward Multiple CPUs?

[kawika]

Did it sound like I was talking about hosting my mysql server on a seperate machine? If so, that's not at all what I meant. The box in my closet has 4 processors, it's a Compaq Proliant server.

I tried putting my mysql server on my webhost's machine when I first started with eqemu and it took forever for world.exe and zone.exe to load. I did it just to see what would happen.

[cofruben]

that's normal...mysql database should be in the same computer, or at least in the same LAN (it is not recommended anyways), or it can be way slow to load, there are a lot of data.

[Willaena]

We have our lan set up so that the eq databases are on my machine, but either machine can run world.exe and the various zone.exe's.

I have not noticed any major lag, or to be more precise, the lag that comes from running the worldserver and zone servers, plus 2 clients, on a machine with 512RAM is worse than the lag that comes from running the worldserver and zoneservers on the second machine, running the mysql database and 2 clients on the fast machine.