Easy Rhino's Minecraft Server Clubhouse!

[blu3flannel]

We have to get a ton of work on the silo done this weekend, it's gonna be boss.

 

[Easy Rhino]

well i hope you are correct in that. guys, start recruiting new members for our server. once the new hardware arrives in 3 weeks i want to create a robust and active minecraft society. if you know people who have minecraft them get them on!

also, somebody finally created a nice clean economy plugin that lets players put up items for sale directly without having to warp around to lame shops. check it out and let me know if it is something we would use.

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/ec...s-to-buy-and-sell-in-a-free-market-818.18948/

 

[blu3flannel]

Great, I have a few people who've been eyeing our carto with jealousy and I'm sure they'll want to hop on board. As for that plug-in, that is exactly what we need and I was quite surprised that nobody had already made something similar.

 

[erocker]

Minecart dispensers are working good at the cart station.

 

[Easy Rhino]

awesome all around. everything is awesome right now!

 

[TheMailMan78]

I cant seem to get it to run anymore after the update. The screen just stays black. Any ideas?

 

[cadaveca]

texture pack.

 

[TheMailMan78]

texture pack.

Yup. I just figured that out. Damn.

 

[Easy Rhino]

there are 1.6.6 compatible high res texture packs and a new mcpatcher out.

 

[Easy Rhino]

epic silo build is under way. this is going to put a lot other stuff i see on youtube to shame.

the beginning:

 

[newtekie1]

Easy, you might have to update cartograph. It doesn't seem to be rendering tall grass properly.

 

[Easy Rhino]

apache is down thanks to a php5 corruption while i was working on adding libraries for a cloud operating system. that means the carto site is temporarily down. working on it now. very lame.

edit: it works again. cloud operating systems have so many f'ing dependencies it is almost not worth it!

 

[Easy Rhino]

PSU arrived today for the server! one part closer to the upgrade.

 

[cadaveca]

Ha! I was just boxing the good bits up:

 

[Easy Rhino]

board looks good. can't wait! i will take some pics of the process just for kicks.

 

[cadaveca]

I had it running a burn-in over the weekend, CPU and board are good to go.

 

[Easy Rhino]

i did a bit of research and found an easy tutorial that lets the server run minecraft totally inside of ram increasing performance from crappy hdd speeds to fast ass ram speeds. so im thinking that cas 7 2x4 sticks at 1333 is the key.

the reason there is some lag isnt necessarily because of cpu speed or cores or the ram on an initial server install. it all comes down to how fast java can in realtime build the world and update it. it makes a lot of sense really. i faster proc helps and so does faster ram, but really a slow hdd is what kills things. offloading all of that into a ram disk should make the biggest overall improvement. cant wait to put all this together and give it a real workout!

 

[cadaveca]

8GB max for the chipset, so there might be some issues with a 2 x 4GB config, as sticks of that density wasn't available back then. Seen a few users that have 8GB @ 1333, or 1600, but they are few, and with sticks that aren't to common on todays market.

4 GB isn't gonna be enough?

 

[Easy Rhino]

8GB max for the chipset, so there might be some issues with a 2 x 4GB config, as sticks of that density wasn't available back then. Seen a few users that have 8GB @ 1333, or 1600, but they are few, and with sticks that aren't to common on todays market.

4 GB isn't gonna be enough?

4 gig was going to be enough until i learned i could put the entire minecraft world into a ram disk.

 

[cadaveca]

4 gig was going to be enough until i learned i could put the entire minecraft world into a ram disk.

Hmmm...well, I'd be looking for older 1.8v or 1.9v sticks, as they seem to work best, although my newer 1.65v DIMMs work fine too. You might have to resign yourself to 1066 MHz on the ram for 8GB...pretty sure that's how the chipset works..hopefulyl it's not 800 MHz!!

Oh, and there's a nation-wide postal strike going on, with areas not getting any mail service for a couple of days, then getting it back for a couple of days. Probbly gonna add a bit to shipping length, and I apologize, but sending by courier is just far too expensive.

 

[Easy Rhino]

well i just checked and our current world is only taking up 76 megabytes. i think it is safe to assume that if i allocate 1 gig of ram to the actual java process of running the server that gives me 2 gigs for world files and 1 gig to run a few other processes (carto, apache, etc). hrm i dont know which way to go since nobody has benchmarked a minecraft server. i dont know if 1066 vs 1333 will make any real impact at cas 7 or if sticking in ram disk is not necessary with a quad core proc. god only knows.

 

[cadaveca]

Well, then you got something to investigate when you get it up and running.

 

[newtekie1]

well i just checked and our current world is only taking up 76 megabytes. i think it is safe to assume that if i allocate 1 gig of ram to the actual java process of running the server that gives me 2 gigs for world files and 1 gig to run a few other processes (carto, apache, etc). hrm i dont know which way to go since nobody has benchmarked a minecraft server. i dont know if 1066 vs 1333 will make any real impact at cas 7 or if sticking in ram disk is not necessary with a quad core proc. god only knows.

What is your idea for keeping the world backed-up in case of a power outage and the RAM disk disapears?

 

[Easy Rhino]

What is your idea for keeping the world backed-up in case of a power outage and the RAM disk disapears?

script creates a symlink between the ram and the hdd and then run a cronjob every 5 minutes.

 

[Easy Rhino]

ram ordered!!!

4x2 gig crucials cas 7!!

Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DD...

gonna be a quick server