Building server hows this hardware?

[Rhodan]

Not going big at all. I'm not planning on having more than a couple dozen people at most.

I also don't plan on loading all zones statically - just cities and the most often visited zones (maybe 30-40 static zones, probably less).

So why try? Just to see

Oh and I really did want to go linux but I'll also be using the server for development under the Lawmaker engine and lawmaker is pure windows. Perhaps when I've got an app actually built in lawmaker I'll see if I can get it to cooperate with linux but until I'm entirely comfortable with the sdk I don't want to be sitting there trying to figure out if the problem is lawmaker or my linux setup.

[Rhodan]

Yep, got home and the remaining zones loaded up (takC+) so the loading failures were probably memory related - thats a heck of a lot of zones to have loaded all at once! So the 250ish zones ate up 2.5 gigs of ram and 6 gigs of page file space. A six gig machine could probably load everything statically though I don't know how much memory a player takes - I figure there wouldn't be a lot of space left for people to actually play. 8 gigs would probably work fine.