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Title: Hosting an OA server on a crappy old computer? Post by: riwa on April 03, 2009, 10:50:00 AM I have an old computer to spare and I was thinking of setting up a server for OA (probably 1v1 cpm). I don't know the spec exactly but its around 4-600 mhz and maybe 128 mb memory. Will it be able to run a server?? I was thinking of OA 0.8.1.
If so which OS should I install? I was thinking of freeBSD but I don't know if it works there. Title: Re: Hosting an OA server on a crappy old computer? Post by: sago007 on April 03, 2009, 11:10:05 AM You can compile a freeBSD version if you want too...
A dedicated openarena server uses ~25 mb of memory and hardly any cpu at all. You should be fine as long as you don't run an X server. Title: Re: Hosting an OA server on a crappy old computer? Post by: fromhell on April 03, 2009, 12:46:26 PM it'll work, even a 486 server will work ( a bit of loading time strain though)
Title: Re: Hosting an OA server on a crappy old computer? Post by: riwa on April 03, 2009, 06:40:04 PM OK. Great. Ill see if I can get it up and running
Title: Re: Hosting an OA server on a crappy old computer? Post by: vindimy on April 03, 2009, 11:31:49 PM I wonder if compiling the OS and Openarena with maximum compiler optimizations versus installing the binaries will make any noticeable difference in this case...
What about in my case? I run Openarena server in a virtual hosting environment, having about 1/16th of a dual quad-core CPU's and 560MB memory... Title: Re: Hosting an OA server on a crappy old computer? Post by: Case on April 04, 2009, 02:12:18 PM Quote I wonder if compiling the OS and Openarena with maximum compiler optimizations versus installing the binaries will make any noticeable difference in this case... You can, although I haven't. You can edit Makefile.local and set it up to BUILD_SERVER only, which saves space. And you could also use CFLAGS in that file which can make it run better for your processor. Here's a good tutorial on CFLAGS http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/compiling/ (http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/compiling/)Title: Re: Hosting an OA server on a crappy old computer? Post by: fractor on April 04, 2009, 03:45:30 PM You can compile a freeBSD version if you want too... it depends on sv_maxclients it uses about 8mb for each clientA dedicated openarena server uses ~25 mb of memory and hardly any cpu at all. You should be fine as long as you don't run an X server. |