Hardware requirements for HL server on Linux

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Hello,
I'm planning to run a Half Life Dedicated Server on my Linux box (2,4 GHz
Celereon, 512MB RAM, 100 MBit Internet connection).
On the server are running a few other services (Apache2, MySQL, postfix,
courier-imap) under low load. The HL server should be 32 natural selection
players.
What will be the hardware requirements? Do you see any problems?

Thx,

Florian

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Peter [AGHL] wrote:

> Florian Lindner wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm planning to run a Half Life Dedicated Server on my Linux box (2,4
> GHz
>> Celereon, 512MB RAM, 100 MBit Internet connection).
>
> 100 Mbit?
> Are you sure

Yes.

> What is the up- and download speed on your internet connection?
> You probably have 100Mbit on your LAN (local network)

I had once a download (from the Internet) with 11 MByte/s ;-)

>> On the server are running a few other services (Apache2, MySQL,
> postfix,
>> courier-imap) under low load. The HL server should be 32 natural
> selection
>> players.
>> What will be the hardware requirements? Do you see any problems?
>>
> More memory
> Other than that depends a little on the load on the database etc

Thanks,

Florian

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Peter [AGHL] wrote:

> Florian Lindner wrote:
>> Peter [AGHL] wrote:
>>
>> > 100 Mbit?
>> > Are you sure
>>
>> Yes.
>>
> Cool
>
> Prizes from an ISP in Denmark
> 51200 kb/s 144.000 kr.
> 102400 kb/s 210.000 kr.
>
> the fee has to be paid four times a year
> Probably quite cheap compared to other ISPs as this is an education net
>
> How much does it cost you or are you in a nice position where you can
> take advantage of this type of bandwidth?
>
> Just curios, if you can't/won't tell it's fine with me :-)

It's a German company offering dedicated servers with root access for rent.
It's 39 Eur for 300 GB Traffic per month. I share this price with about 10
people hosting web sites and some small servers there. Obviously the
machine is too small for hlds with 34 players.

Florian

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Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm planning to run a Half Life Dedicated Server on my Linux box (2,4 GHz
> Celereon, 512MB RAM, 100 MBit Internet connection).
> On the server are running a few other services (Apache2, MySQL, postfix,
> courier-imap) under low load. The HL server should be 32 natural selection
> players.
> What will be the hardware requirements? Do you see any problems?
>
> Thx,
>
> Florian

4mb RAM per player is a good guideline. Plus the mod's overhead. That
would suggest that you probably need 192mb of RAM just for the HLDS.

In addition to that you'll need about 40k/bits per entity in both
directions, so 32 players you're going to need at least a megabit (not a
problem by the sound of things).

Processor-wise, celeron servers generally aren't a great idea, but just
keep an eye on it, 2.4 should be more than enough..

Civilian_Target