Server Optimization

[Sam!]

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 [PvPscene]]

Did you read that one yet?
http://www.kellys-heroes.eu/files/tutorials/dedicated/

[Borklund]

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

[Sam!]

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

[Cross]

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.