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#1 2012-01-18 06:37:56
- tank8465
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have two old machines, what should I use as a minecraft server?
I have:
P4 @ 2.6GHZ w/ 512k memory (box I found in the trash)
or
Pentium M @ 1.5 GHZ w/1Gig memory (thinkpad X41 I bought on ebay for 100 bucks a while ago)
I plan on having a server with 2 or 3 people on it max, but I'm wondering if it's better to have a faster CPU or more memory for all of this.
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#2 2012-01-18 13:30:51
- llawwehttam
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Re: have two old machines, what should I use as a minecraft server?
I would use the P4 box but put some more Ram in it. Minecraft is a pretty resource intensive game. I admin a server or two and some quad core machines start to struggle as the maps get larger.
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#3 2012-01-18 18:44:20
- tank8465
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Re: have two old machines, what should I use as a minecraft server?
Obviously, but right now, money is crazy tight (starving engineering student over heeeer!)
The maps aren't going to get too too large, again, not many people will be playing this server.
The main question: Do I need more CPU or more RAM?
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#4 2012-01-18 20:24:09
- arcc
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Re: have two old machines, what should I use as a minecraft server?
P4 @ 2.6GHZ w/ 512k memory (box I found in the trash)
The main question: Do I need more CPU or more RAM?
I would think 512 M? 
I would prefer more RAM because Minecraft is written in Java and Java seems to be very RAM-hungry.
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#5 2012-01-18 23:13:12
- bluepumpkin
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Re: have two old machines, what should I use as a minecraft server?
The Minecraft server software needs ~1.5GiB of RAM to run without swapping if there are around 3 users. I would try the Pentium M first. It may lag a little since the CPU is a bit slow, but it would likely lag less than the P4 because the P4 would be thrashing all the time.
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#6 2012-01-19 01:39:48
- pilotkeller
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Re: have two old machines, what should I use as a minecraft server?
Well you could always try running a Hadoop or Beowulf cluster over the two of them. I mean if it doesn't have to be a choice persay.
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#7 2012-01-19 03:09:32
- bukwrim
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Re: have two old machines, what should I use as a minecraft server?
Memory for a P4 machine should be pretty cheap on ebay (or just keep looking in the trash:-)).
You could just try it on both, and keep whichever works best.
Last edited by bukwrim (2012-01-19 03:10:11)
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