Server setup.

[beerbong]

Originally Posted by chrsschb

Unfortunately the EQClient, Server, or Database make no use of multiple core processors. Like Chaos said, your biggest focus should be RAM, then CPU. Besides that you'll need a crap load of bandwidth if you plan on having even a small community.

An empty zone (dynamic or static) takes about 8MB of RAM. The database/MySQL will take about 200-300 MB of RAM. I've seen some zones get up to 70-90MB's with a couple groups in them.

I honestly would recommend 3 GBs of RAM minimum on a 32-bit OS (or 4 GB minimum on a 64-bit OS).

I know from experience that 768 kb Up is only good for about 40-50 people. That is really stretching it though due to the variances in packet size for different actions. I saw fluctuations between 300 kb UP and 700 kb UP with only 30-35 people on the server so it's very possible 40+ can cause issues with only 768.

We recently moved to a 20 Mb UP line and it's helped tremendously.

EQEmu makes no use of multiple CPUs? That's not what I have heard. From last I checked EQEmu will eat up as much CPU as you can throw at it..

Although, I do recall a PEQ staff member telling me it was running on a P4 3.1GHz with 2gb of ram, and they get 150 people at peak.