Hey guys,

I use my 512 to develop a website and run a small Minecraft server for my brother and me. However, I feel like the server is idle most of the time, so I'm thinking of hosting a CS:S server for glass maps(I miss glass maps).

I would like to run at least a 16 player server, but from what I've been reading a 16 player server would take much more than 512 megs of ram to run. However, I've seen some old Linode posts about people 24 player TF2 servers on a machine like this.

Is it possible that I can host a 16 player CS:S server on top of my minecraft server? I'm worried about the ram requirement.

Thanks

According to this you'll want at least 1GB for 16 people. You could just try it out however and see how it works.

EDIT: But on top of Minecraft, wouldn't count on it. Minecraft already uses A LOT of memory as it is. Running minecraft -AND- CSS on 512MB will very very likely give you oom problems.

Yes I have seen that web post, but I made this post because people seem to have done it on Linode without 1 GB of ram.

And yes I agree I probably couldnt run it on top of minecraft. I would probably switch them out when needed.

I thought I had a post around here somewhere explaining my experiences, but I can't seem to find it.

Anyway, I've run CS:S GunGame and CS:S ZombieMod and Killing Floor and Minecraft on my 512, which I think was a 360 at the time maybe. All one at a time though.

I was able to play successfully on a 64-player ZombieMod server with me + 63 hard bots. My friends and I were able to play on the GunGame server with no lag at all. I didn't get a chance to test how this works with a lot of players but it worked fine 3v3.

Killing Floor also worked great but is NOT srcds. That game was able to play with 6 human players and however many zombies the map had, usually 200+.

I do know that at one time I had to replace my /proc/cpuinfo with one from a different server so that the srcds engine would start. This was a LONG time ago and may have been back in the UML days, but I'm not sure.

Minecraft, which you seem to already have running, took up quite a few resources. I ended up changing the recommended commandline to start the server. The recommended one sets the jvm RAM to 1024MB, I was able to run successfully by setting that to the upper 90MBs. I wouldn't count on running MC + SRCDS on the same box at the same time though. Worth a shot.

If you have any questions I'll help out however I can!

I run cs 1.6 server with 14 players in my 512 linode. Works well sometimes i got lag but is fine.

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