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128 players per server?

by Roto · in Technical Issues · 04/09/2005 (2:11 pm) · 1 replies

I just bought that book and read that a server can suport 128 simutaneous players. Sicne that book is about 1 year old, I was wondering is that 128 is low considering there is better equipment out there. For example a dual Xeon processor server, how many could a server of this quality support?
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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
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04/09/2005 (3:02 pm)
More complex answer: That's a general term that's been thrown around since Tribes 2 days. It's not a hardcoded value. In fact, depending on your network metrics, you could have many more connections. Whether you have the bandwidth or bus speed to pop out the packets fast enough will be a bit more important than your processor when it comes to network traffic. Now, if you're making a lot of decisions on the server side, the processor will come into play heavily.

Simple answer: It depends, and from your question, there's no way to determine whether you will be able to have even 3 connections, let alone 128 or 5000 since you're not as implementation specific as your traffic will be.