Old Duo up for Task?

[Guest]

I have an old Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 that a friend wants to use to run a Minecraft Ubuntu server. Do you think this would work? It would have somewhere between 4-6 GB of DDR2 allocated for it, running off of an iGPU on the motherboard.

[Minbari]

Running a server on the machine (without somebody using that machine to play) has very little need for graphics horsepower. An E6600 is old and weak but the demand of a minecraft server is very low. 4-6GB of RAM should be enough, but both depend on the number of players you want connected, and what mods you might have installed. Assuming you have the equipment, the least you can do is get it set up, check what the "idle" usage of the system is running the server with no connected players, and then see how much that changes with 1 or 2 users interacting on the server on separate machines. A very rough extrapolation can be made to see how many more people you could theoretically connect before the hardware limitation is too great. I suspect a dozen people shouldn't be an issue on a machine of that capability though, running vanilla MC.

[TheGlenlivet]

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Server/Requirements

Looks like it will "work" but it's way below the best settings according to the link.

[Guest]

Just now, Minbari said:

Running a server on the machine (without somebody using that machine to play) has very little need for graphics horsepower. An E6600 is old and weak but the demand of a minecraft server is very low. 4-6GB of RAM should be enough, but both depend on the number of players you want connected, and what mods you might have installed. Assuming you have the equipment, the least you can do is get it set up, check what the "idle" usage of the system is running the server with no connected players, and then see how much that changes with 1 or 2 users interacting on the server on separate machines. A very rough extrapolation can be made to see how many more people you could theoretically connect before the hardware limitation is too great. I suspect a dozen people shouldn't be an issue on a machine of that capability though, running vanilla MC.

We are planning on running Technic modpacks, with about 10 ish people at max, but id say 6 is a safe guess for heavier days. Usually it'll have about one or two people on it daily

[Pasi123]

E6600 is more than enought for a little Minecraft server. Some years ago I used an old E6300 system (5gb ram) to run Minecraft server with about 40 players (and about 40 plugins) 

[Minbari]

Technic packs increase demand significantly. Piles of world anchors and machines running love to eat CPU and RAM even when no users are connected. At one point I had an i7 machine and 16GB of RAM running a Tekkit server and the demand on that hardware was fairly intense. The least you can do is try to run the components and see where you get.