Minecraft server: more cores?

[Fasauceome]

I have my Linux server in my sig, wanna know if a second CPU would help for running a Minecraft server. 1366 Xeons are dirt cheap, and the heat sink I need is only $20, but if there's nothing to gain from it then why bother.

[NunoLava1998]

Buy an entire server for 7,000$, add 192TB of storage onto it, set player limit to 4, and then you'll have a somewhat smooth experience.

[Fasauceome]

Just now, NunoLava1998 said:

Buy an entire server for 7,000$, add 192TB of storage onto it, set player limit to 4, and then you'll have a somewhat smooth experience.

My friend was running a server with his 5960x, and playing with it at the same time. Since I have more ram and cores free I feel like it would be better, but also I've not tested with a player count higher than 2 yet

[NunoLava1998]

 

Just now, fasauceome said:

My friend was running a server with his 5960x, and playing with it at the same time. Since I have more ram and cores free I feel like it would be better, but also I've not tested with a player count higher than 2 yet

/fill 0 0 0 32 32 32 tnt

/setblock 32 33 32 redstone_block

 

Good benchmark

[Crunchy Dragon]

3 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

My friend was running a server with his 5960x, and playing with it at the same time. Since I have more ram and cores free I feel like it would be better, but also I've not tested with a player count higher than 2 yet

One of my buddies hosts a server from an 8700K(while using it) and we have no problems with up to 10 players.

Worth noting that players are memory-intensive, not CPU intensive; each player(as long as they're not close to each other) will take up 200MB or so of memory.

 

If you've got 6 cores and 12 threads, you should be pretty good in terms of CPU power for a Minecraft server.

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

One of my buddies hosts a server from an 8700K(while using it) and we have no problems with up to 10 players.

Worth noting that players are memory-intensive, not CPU intensive; each player(as long as they're not close to each other) will take up 200MB or so of memory.

 

If you've got 6 cores and 12 threads, you should be pretty good in terms of CPU power for a Minecraft server.

Lol coulda said that 10 minutes ago

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, fasauceome said:

Lol coulda said that 10 minutes ago

That didn't fully occur to me

 

There usually isn't much reason for upwards of 1 CPU for just a standard SMP server.