42 Amsterdam New Server

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Hi everyone

Once again - I'm probing possibility to change my main server
Last attempt were unsuccessful - i hope this time something will work out

Current server:
CPU - Xeon E3-1275 v5
MEM - 64GB
DISK - x2 - 512Gb NVme
SYS - Windows Server 2012 R2

It is 4 years old by now - but it does perform perfect still.....
Time goes on though ...and for the same price i can get 12 cores AMD ...with 128GB memory ....and 4TB NMme ... so..



Although .....there is a catch :
Server that i got my eye on - can be only located in Sweden ...

To test this - i've got two temporary VPS servers:
(The reason for 2 VPSs - is to equalize the hop count ....(dedicated server will have less) thus - do not try to ping actual server for comparison - results will not be correct)

95.217.152.132 - (Sweden - possible new location)
116.203.186.195 -(Germany -Nuremberg where main server is located)

[Karel]

Thats a Finland flag not Sweden
38ms ping to it
18ms to the Nuremberg one
both have 17 hops for me

[Supersniper98]

Terrible for me - 90 ping compared to 64 before, this one comes close to Russian servers:

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42Amsterdam moved to a new server

Ryzen 3900 (12 cores)
128GB memory
4TB NVMe

Same location as previous one - so should be no diff in ping

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About the new server

I've noticed that some players use server IP instead of domain name

This is just not handy ...and error prone

First of all - there is a patch - though i do understand some players simply not capable to install it ...(helped one recently ...and yes its a woman)
No problem with using direct access connect - but i would advise to use the host name instead of IP - 42amsterdam.net whenever that changes you wont have to do anything.

So ...if anyone still has the old IP "138.201.82.138" set for accessing servers - change it to 42amsterdam.net

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One interesting thing I've noticed

New server is AMD ...and it handles tasks load distribution differently than Intel

here is current server:



load is shared between 6 cores ...and rest is idle ...until a threshold - then next core is used

With Intel CPU - loads distributed evenly among all cores...

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in 2011 ive made an option to specify on witch core game can run ..first server had 6 cores
i think now i can trully make use of this functionality

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first attempt to split affinity ...

rebooting servers




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after reboot:

hmm ....better ....but not it ...

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nop ..nada ...

all affinity settings mostly ignored ... though i did get 2 mores cores utilized

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i think there ought to be a setting in bios for this behavior
though i cannot access it - this is a hosted server

[Supersniper98]

why is the CPU frequency so low? maybe something in Power Plan settings is wrong? (Powersaver: on etc)

A and also why is L3 cache not shown

This is how it is for me:


Seems to spread evenly

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True ...it was set to "balance" - changed...
though i'm never gonna get your 4GHz ...

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i've changed from balanced few hours ago ...
now it seems that some tasks are spread among the rest of the cores




not much though

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files.42amsterdam.net will be moving to a new location as well

It does not mean anything for gaming (forum only and downloads)
but anyone who still stuck to old IPs - now been notified.

Two servers ...map.42.... & files.42... will be combined into a single dedicated server
Hetzner prices are so low - i could not resist

as well - 1TB of disk space ....(compared to 80gb + 250gb previously)

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as well - 1TB of disk space ....(compared to 80gb + 250gb previously)

i mean - upload your maps - server can handle it

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Transition from current data servers to new one will be within a week ..10 days max