I have a Raspberry Pi 3 laying around and found this
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The Pi has Quad core 1.2 GHZ Link

Has anyone tried it and what is your judgement?

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/ dimman

yep, it works well....

http://wiki.quakeworld.nu/How_to_server

Do they use multiple cores? Have heard that mvdsv only uses single core..

That is correct.... all QW clients and servers use a single core only...

A raspberry pi 3 can easily handle a 4on4 game utilising one of the cores for a server (even a raspberry pi 2 can handle a 4on4).

But then this will be better since it uses multithreaded cores? And i was thinking of running more than 1 server on it. But people will not be on all the servers on the same time.

Not all clients/servers are single threaded. Actually ezQuake uses more than one thread for different things although mostly background stuff.
FTE is way more advanced and utilizises (or can utilize) threads for a lot of things.

Interesting...

I dunno... The website says this:



If you are running multiple servers (on the regular MVDSV) then they would simply use a single core each.... This XCore one seems to split them over the 4 cores but then double the overall CPU utilisation? Seems counter productive when you can just run a server on each core... and the Raspberry Pi 3 can handle it fine also...

multithreading a server isn't all that useful. what time you save with SMP is lost again from all the mutexes that must now be locked in order to keep the various parts of the server in sync. when console commands or client inputs or game physics all potentially poke the same bits of memory, there's no easy way to avoid performance loss or race conditions.
this is why most games only really use SMP for audio mixing (and at low resolutions, a little smp can double the framerates achievable with vulkan in the same way that nvidia's 'threaded optimisations' is meant to work).
on the plus side, multiple servers (including proxies) will do slightly better on a quad-core box.

FTE can load resources on worker threads. although this doesn't really mean much for servers when most dedicated servers don't need to load any resources beyond the bsp anyway.
Really the best use for threads in servers is to avoid disk writes from blocking the main thread (which can be a serious issue inside certain virtual machines), or dns lookups with dodgy master servers configured, simple stuff like that.

Do note:

The author of the linked software is intentionally not conforming to the GPL license and therefor discussions of the software is breaking §4 of forum rules.

Please refrain from using the software as it may also contain malware/spyware, we have no way of knowing.

/ dimman

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