What are the best ways in increasing server porformance?

[dantheman420]

Hello,

 

 

 

What are the best ways to increase your server performance for best game server performance?

[Hogie]

upgrade your server to a faster cpu, more memory and faster bus speeds.

 

 

 

[dantheman420]

My server is Dual Xeon 3.0 Ghz HT..

 

Is there any other way without spending money :\ lol. like modifications to the server settings (windows 2003 server).

[Nobby]

Next time buy an Opteron, or at least an AMD x2 system, then you won't need to ask about performance enhancements

 

From personal experience and from what i've read on lots of forums, Xeon's are awful for gaming. Mainly due to the restricted memory bandwidth I believe.

 

Don't shoot me, thats just my opinion !

[USBz0r]

Yeah, what you said is true. xeons are good at processing but the memory bandwidth is completly shit. its old tech. there are some new Xeons, but still the bandwidth isnt as good as a amd x64 based processor with an ondie memory controller.

[Chew]

from past experiences, our dual xeon 3.2's spank a dual opteron 250 in terms of load averages.

 

We're about to order a set of woodcrest servers, which are supposed to be 40% more efficient than the older xeons.

 

In my opinion, intel is the only way to go.

 

Memory bandwidth comes into play with things like high concurrent connections, as opposed to sustained low transfer connections.

 

My .02

 

Chew

[USBz0r]

from past experiences, our dual xeon 3.2's spank a dual opteron 250 in terms of load averages.

 

We're about to order a set of woodcrest servers, which are supposed to be 40% more efficient than the older xeons.

 

In my opinion, intel is the only way to go.

 

Memory bandwidth comes into play with things like high concurrent connections, as opposed to sustained low transfer connections.

 

My .02

 

Chew

 

It isnt just about how much cpu cycles you can save.

[Defcon|Rich]

I'm with Matt, Xeons are hard to beat. We been running them since the beginning and never had any issues at all..

 

 

If our customers can be an indication of what GSP's prefer they would also say Intel.. Our books show Intel sales orders are about triple of what the AMD orders are..

[USBz0r]

intel gets more orders because people think because it has higher clocks it will take down any other lower clocked processor in any app.#

 

i have a quadcore and im now using it as a file server because i hate the damn pos.

[Defcon|Rich]

I'm not interested in benchmarks or numbers.. I know what I see and having just over 250 machines of different specs to draw conclusions from my point still stands. Real world performance is what counts, The rest doesn't matter..