How many players online PC will handle?

[xardix]

hello.
I have a question. How many players online this PC will handle:
CPU: celeron 1,2 GHz
Ram: 1GB
and how many instances will i be able to open on this PC?

or this PC:
CPU: athlon 2,8 GHz
Ram: 2GB

I use the beastie Release.
OS: Linux Ubuntu 8.04 Server or Ubuntu 9.04 Server I don't know yet.

thx for anwser

[MentaL]

[Hauk]

With all instances open it takes about 5 gigs of ram, if you use a large swap partition you shouldn't have any problem there, but as for how many players it will support, that depends on internet speed as much as processor, if you are on a residential connection, about 20-30 people without too much lag seems like a realistic limit.

[xardix]

saying of 20-30 people had you on your mind that PC with celeron 1.2 GHz or with athlon 2,8 GHz?

Had anyone tried on similar PC and could share his experience?

Thx for all anwsers

[RagingINtheZONE]

The first PC.... none really. Just to get all of it running would take up about 1 gb of ram o.O adding players opening up their own instances would probably make your ram top expecially with the weak CPU. The second PC I'd say you could get a good test server going to modify your game till you can afford a dedi.

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Edit: By "all of it running" I mean without all instances on would still top over 1gb of ram. Run a cultivation only server and maybe you can squeeze somewhere within 2gbs o.o.

[akiz]

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