Server Optimization

[Sam! 10]

I have recently bought a dedicated server for my clan. I have everything set up and running how I like it's just I want to optimize the server to run nicely.

Server

10Mbps Unmetered line. (100 Mbps burstable)

Intel Xeon E5520 2.5GHz

2gb Ram

Windows 2008 Standard

I want to optimize the server bandwidth and make everything run smoothly.

Current Settings

MinBandwidth=16384000

MaxBandwidth=32768000

MaxMsgSend = 192

MaxSizeGuaranteed = 512

MaxSizeNonguaranteed = 192

MinErrorToSend = 0.008

MaxCustomFileSize=350000

Personally i'm not sure if these are good settings or not i've never set up an ArmA 2 server before.

There are also another few things i'm not sure about. In the past i've ran source powered servers (css, tf2 etc) and the cpu power was very low. With ArmA 2 it's taking 50-60% of the servers CPU with only 2-3 people on the server. Is this normal and to be expected? if so, will it increase as more people play on the server?

[.kju 3244]

Did you read that one yet?

http://www.kellys-heroes.eu/files/tutorials/dedicated/

[Borklund 10]

Thanks kju, I'm in the same seat as Sam! here.

Edited October 23, 2009 by Borklund

[Sam! 10]

I saw the example one they gave but it's for 100Mbit line.

[cross 1]

Try this ;)

MinBandwidth=4096000

MaxBandwidth=12288000

MaxMsgSend = 512

MaxSizeGuaranteed = 512

MaxSizeNonguaranteed = 128

MinErrorToSend = 0.005

MaxCustomFileSize=350000

Arma2 server is CPU hungry and uses 2 cores as it supports multi-threading. It is normal to see utilization around 50% if your server is dual core. It shouldn't increase too much but your server FPS will decrease indicating that the server is struggling under heavy load.

You can monitor the server perf within Arma2 by using "#monitor 5" in the chat line when logged in as admin. Do "#monitor 0" to stop.

Edited October 23, 2009 by Cross