Minilogin - cannot see local server

[ArChron]

Originally Posted by cutterjohn

(I really don't like running it on my main x86 desktop, but I've not got much of a choice ATM. The PII is actually running a coppermine celeron @ 500M w/c. 164M RAM and an itty bitty 12G or so drive

I'm with ya cutterjohn... working on resurrecting my old Abit dual Celeron 500MHz machine just so I can offload the EMU and MySQL from my desktop. With the DB, Emu, me, and two sons connected from the network, I get hammered everytime they zone.

[John Adams]

Wow. You guys with all your total crap old hardware j/k

I was worried that my rather robust P4 3.0 w/2GB RAM and Raid0 10,000rpm drives were going to be insufficient to run an Emu... Now, I am confident it is ok, and only glaring at my bandwidth.

Thank you for the confidence!

[cutterjohn]

Originally Posted by John Adams

Wow. You guys with all your total crap old hardware j/k

I was worried that my rather robust P4 3.0 w/2GB RAM and Raid0 10,000rpm drives were going to be insufficient to run an Emu... Now, I am confident it is ok, and only glaring at my bandwidth.

Thank you for the confidence!

@John Adams psssh, that should run it no problem... What's your current desktop setup? Core 2? I need me at least a E6600, soonest I think...

While I haven't really checked too closely, it would appear that mysql plus the emu is not all that heavy of a load, or at least with my 5 zone load setup. It runs stably at around 400M used for mysql, emu stuff plus OS.

That said, I'd iagine that it'd be best to have a serving machine have at least 512M, likely preferably 768M just to be safe and soe FAST drives if planning on hosting more than 5 or so people. I'd expect that 1-3 could get away on the low end specs of 512M, whatever drives, and c. 500M cpu with a lite OS e.g. minimal linux or *BSD install.

I'll try experimenting sometime in the, hopefully, near future on my current setup if I can dig up some more RAM. (I think that I may be able to scavenge some from another machine that dates back to approx. the same age as my current server, but it may have all 32M modules which won't be helpful... I'm hoping that they're 64M or 128M...)

The 1G Athlon isn't going to get setup for a while, because no matter how I cut it, I'm going to have find/buy some PC100 or, preferably, PC133 RAM somewhere. (Trying to track down some reasonable prices, but I'll probably have to hit some tradeshows or swap meets or something for that...)

Also fixed a quest for cavedude the other day, the kaladim "going postal" quest... had a rather obvious bug, that I'm afraid to say that I overlooked several times until I ran the client in a window and notepad with the quest perl open next to it... d'oh dupe entrie. One w/o a spawn quest item line, and the second with the spawn quest item line, but a misspelling in the quest text... haven't had much time since then but I plan to go through more of the kaladim/butcherblood mtn quests as I go.)

[John Adams]

Heh, I know my hardware rocks (for desktop pc standards anyway). That machine is just one of my servers. My desktop is an XP box with similar stats, which has no problem just playing the game live or emu.

At one time (when TESS was running live), I had spawned 30 static and 10 dynamic zones. The server was barely stirring as far as utilization - but that was with maybe 2-4 players. My concerns start when there are 25-50 or more. I know bandwidth might be the issue then. Plus, I have a "mini farm" set up here (for my job) of 4 servers spec'd like above - 2 Windows Server 2003 x64, and 2 Linux FC4 and a FC5 x64 ("No really, honey. I do need this stuff for work. I swear!") Try selling that to the missus I *could* always spread my zones around on those servers...

Btw, I am scouring eBay lately looking for a good deal on a Dell PowerEdge. A place I have yet to go in my home-networking experiments; a >real< server.