[Question] Server Hardware

[Greedseed]

They have been talking about trying to add multicore support for years now, I highly doubt anything will come about it. If anything someone will find a way to use a plugin to "hack" a half way fix for core support. Java just isn't made to support it.

Java IS supportive of Multithreads. There are plugins already using this. Like dynmap, and many others. A hack wont work. The multithread support needs to be coded in on the botom level of the java application.

I had conversations for hours and hours with java devellopers about this and there is NO way you can add multicore support without rewriting minecraft.
And before anyone is gone rage in here with " i run on multiple core's" That are sertain mods and plugins than can shift there load to a different core. But the main minecraft core with all the rendering will stay on one thread.

 

[TheMap]

Java IS supportive of Multithreads. There are plugins already using this. Like dynmap, and many others. A hack wont work. The multithread support needs to be coded in on the botom level of the java application.

I had conversations for hours and hours with java devellopers about this and there is NO way you can add multicore support without rewriting minecraft.
And before anyone is gone rage in here with " i run on multiple core's" That are sertain mods and plugins than can shift there load to a different core. But the main minecraft core with all the rendering will stay on one thread.

When I said Java I meant Minecraft. It goes the same with another game similar called darkfall. They did the same thing and screwed the game up so it only ran on one core.

Regardless who has spoken to whom it is a very known fact, beat to death horse, that minecraft runs on one core. And wont' change anytime soon if at all. 3 years ago the same thing was said from Notch himself, "we are working on multicore support" and we can see what happened with that. Maybe Minecraft 2. But will never happen with what we have now.

 

[Greedseed]

there wont be a minecraft 2. Thats confirmd by notch. Also there IS gone be a Rewrite of the complete minecraft code. Also confirmd by mojang. At that point they will have a change they NEVER had before to implement multicore suppor.

Not saying it will be in here a 100% Working, but if they wanted to add it, this is gone be there big chance.

 

[Luke_H]

there wont be a minecraft 2. Thats confirmd by notch. Also there IS gone be a Rewrite of the complete minecraft code. Also confirmd by mojang. At that point they will have a change they NEVER had before to implement multicore suppor.

Not saying it will be in here a 100% Working, but if they wanted to add it, this is gone be there big chance.

Complete overhaul for 1.5. confirmed.

 

[DEVGRU]

Most hosts try and confuse you with lots of features that are basically meaningless on a minecraft server. The ONLY thing you really need to pay attention to is RAM. You'll notice that ALL of the hosts are extremely grudging with that one category because it's the only one that counts.

If you're going to actually have 10 people on your server, running FTB... you'll probably need 1GB at a bare minimum. I have allocated my server 4GB and it has at most 3 people on it... it consumes about 2GB on average.

This is why I run my own linux box on old hardware. Turns out RAM is cheap if you buy it yourself.

Allright. I know this an old post. But I'm starting up a server as well. But I would like to use a Linux box. Can you pint me to the place where I can look at them?

 

[Staxed]

dude...you just bumped a thread that is almost a year and a half old when you already started a thread on the same topic...

also, that quote you quoted is so far off base it isn't even funny. CPU is a huge factor in modded minecraft servers.

@ThatOneSlowking

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

dude...you just bumped a thread that is almost a year and a half old when you already started a thread on the same topic...

also, that quote you quoted is so far off base it isn't even funny. CPU is a huge factor in modded minecraft servers.

@ThatOneSlowking

Allright. I know this an old post. But I'm starting up a server as well. But I would like to use a Linux box. Can you pint me to the place where I can look at them?