kill4killin
December 21st, 2010, 07:58 PM
So this kind of crosses over a lot of the forums here but I thought I would start here so I don't step on toes.
I'm working on upgrading my Minecraft beta server. It runs Ubuntu server 10.04. The hardware is currently a dual processor P4 era Xeon with 1GB of RAM. I've observed it running consistently at 100% CPU load on CPU0 and sometimes up to 80% on CPU1 with 800MB of the RAM being used up just by the minecraft program alone. Needless to say the performance on the server has been pretty terrible and a lot of my regular players have stated that since the update to Minecraft beta things have gotten substantially slower. To see if it was hardware I put it on a 10.04 virtual machine on my 3.0Ghz C2D and it was significantly faster, even with only 1GB of RAM still so I'm definitely at a hardware bottleneck and I need recommendations on a new processor for the new system I'm putting together.
I am already set on the RAM (4GB of DDR3) and a 500GB RAID 0+1 and it will still be running Ubuntu 10.04 server. However, I would like to virtualize the different servers that I will be running (I.E. seperate the web server, game server, music server, etc.).
I'm between a AMD PhenomII X4 925 or an Intel C2D (haven't decided on the model). Both have advantages over the other, the Phenome have 4 cores and more L3 but I've heard from some people that the C2D will perform better at the same speed per core. Either way I would like to stay in or around the $130 range on the processor.
I'm looking for recommendations and I'm also looking to see if anyone has any thoughts on what the advantages of each would be.
I'm working on upgrading my Minecraft beta server. It runs Ubuntu server 10.04. The hardware is currently a dual processor P4 era Xeon with 1GB of RAM. I've observed it running consistently at 100% CPU load on CPU0 and sometimes up to 80% on CPU1 with 800MB of the RAM being used up just by the minecraft program alone. Needless to say the performance on the server has been pretty terrible and a lot of my regular players have stated that since the update to Minecraft beta things have gotten substantially slower. To see if it was hardware I put it on a 10.04 virtual machine on my 3.0Ghz C2D and it was significantly faster, even with only 1GB of RAM still so I'm definitely at a hardware bottleneck and I need recommendations on a new processor for the new system I'm putting together.
I am already set on the RAM (4GB of DDR3) and a 500GB RAID 0+1 and it will still be running Ubuntu 10.04 server. However, I would like to virtualize the different servers that I will be running (I.E. seperate the web server, game server, music server, etc.).
I'm between a AMD PhenomII X4 925 or an Intel C2D (haven't decided on the model). Both have advantages over the other, the Phenome have 4 cores and more L3 but I've heard from some people that the C2D will perform better at the same speed per core. Either way I would like to stay in or around the $130 range on the processor.
I'm looking for recommendations and I'm also looking to see if anyone has any thoughts on what the advantages of each would be.