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« 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.
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« Reply #1 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.
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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2009, 12:46:26 PM »
it'll work, even a 486 server will work ( a bit of loading time strain though)
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« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2009, 06:40:04 PM »
OK. Great. Ill see if I can get it up and running
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« Reply #4 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...
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« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2009, 02:12:18 PM »
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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/
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« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2009, 03:45:30 PM »
Quote from: 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.
it depends on sv_maxclients it uses about 8mb for each client
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