Load Balancing

[kraze]

The good thing here is that as technology gets better and better you don't necessarily need higher core clocks. The E5-2690 is a good example of that. It is only running at 2.9Ghz and in most cases out performs machines running at a higher clock.

Either way it does still suck, those machines are expensive and only being able to get X amount of people on an expensive machine really hurts doesn't.

[rustydusty1717]

I have a customer with a SQL that could destroy it

[kraze]

lol...

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

Would an SQL db on the same server cause a lot of issues?
Create lag or stutter.

With 8 dayz servers? Especially

[soja]

I've seen sql cause noticeable cpu usage spikes on a quad core machine, I would recommend putting sql on a different machine, if possible.

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

Wish I could. The idiots coding the files, claim it will work with an external db, but have never got it to work.

Tried using my web hosting account, adding remote sql ips, had ports opened, etc, but will not connect.

Also tried it on our VDS here, where we had no restrictions, and same thing.

It's that bad, that you can't even use localhost, but have to use 127.0.0.1 as the host value in the database.ini.

[Vanderburg]

Also, remember, with respect to the E5-2690, it has the same turbo speed as the E3-1270, so even though it's normally 500MHz slower, on turbo, they both run at 3.8GHz

[Edge100x]

The E5-2690 is a half-generation past the E3-1270, as well ("Sandy Bridge-EP" instead of just "Sandy Bridge"), has more cache available per core, and supports higher-frequency memory (1600mhz versus 1333mhz). The combination of factors mean that generally these processors run at about the same speed on a per-core basis.

I agree that most of the time it is best to put HTTP and MySQL servers (and really, anything but game servers) on separate VDSes than your game servers. The resources that both of these require can be unpredictable and quite significant at times, crowding out the game servers and reducing performance. If you do keep them on the same host, monitor performance carefully and set appropriate priorities for each service.

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

Does a server move to other cores to balance on Windows.

eg. if a game server starts with core 1 and 2 and 1 and 2 get a heavy load and other cores are minimal, will they adjust and move to the other cores?

[kraze]

Does a server move to other cores to balance on Windows.

eg. if a game server starts with core 1 and 2 and 1 and 2 get a heavy load and other cores are minimal, will they adjust and move to the other cores?

Technically, yes. Windows does a pretty good job of bouncing things around cores to keep things balanced.

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

Cool - I initially set up to work on specific cores but finding those seem to load up.
Will let windows do it's magic.

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

Is there anyway to monitor which gameservers are on which cores?

[Edge100x]

Windows moves them around so much that it can be hard to tell. I'm not familiar with a tool that would show this information (Process Explorer is the go-to for such things, and it doesn't appear to).