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Old November 27th, 2006, 02:06 PM
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As I remember, the conversation that you refer to came to a crawl when it was asked if anyone would volunteer to help run the server.
In fact, 2 people with different OS preferences volunteered (Cainehill-Linux and me-W2K/XP), but nothing was heard about it any more after that ... .


Btw., I wonder if the graphicless Dom server runs with ReactOS already.
Someday I'll have to set up a 3rd machine and try that out ... .

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I havent done any real tests. I cant bring myself to run JUST dominions on a server. I have two servers.

One old junky one that runs a large MUD named Shadowdale. And also runs about a dozen small blitz games of Dom3. It also does a bunch of cron work (generating maps and such)

The hot new server is running web service for a dozen domains, and email for about a hundred users. Plus many other services (ftp, irc, etc). There are 5 large Dom3 games running there. Three them are 1500 provinces and 79 nations.

Both machines would be put to shame by any new desktop anyone has gotten in the last year.
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Unless it's changed from dom2, RAM is the major bottleneck. As I recall, 20 games took about 500Mb or so. Of course, most of that is never used, so a huge swappartition helps.
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Hmm..., that is actually encouraging. That would scale to 160 games with 4GB of memory (plus whatever you setup with the swap).
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Johan made some incredible improvements in the way the game handles memory. But then again, the maximums for the game all went up so it might have balanced out.

It should also be noted that these numbers tend to reflect text-mode/direct-connect. It cuts by at LEAST a factor of 10 if you try to run everything in gui menus. And in windows you lose many options. Also if you go pbem or ftp upload then the number of games goes way up (running dom3 only long enough to host, and not hosting them all at the same time)
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I am planning to do it, I just haven't gotten organized with my linux host yet. I should probably retire it and replace it with my obsolete desktop, but I don't want to because the obsolete desktop is loud and the positively ancient linux server is not

I never had any luck hosting with commandline in dom2... hope it works better in dom3. I could never successfully create new games, the settings always came out wrong, once they were started graphically they worked fine, though.
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The switches for Dom2 were hard to get used to. But its gotten much better with Dom3 but at the same time adding many more of them.

I will post a note about that in the linux hosting thread.


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