Server Hardware and Performance Comparison

[lbmaster 21]

Hello community,

I would really like to know which Hardware you are using, if you host a DayZ Server on your own. Here is my story why I write this:

I recently rented a Root Server (4 Threads of a Intel Xeon Gold 6140 and 16GB DDR4 ECC Ram) and discovered that something with my performance was not like I wanted it to be. The Server took in average 81.4 seconds to fully load (started time with the first message in the log and ended when the server said "Init sequence finished."). On my PC it took around 34.2 Seconds to load. It is a difference of around 2,38x. Both tests were run on a HDD and the Speed of my rented server was actually double my speed because of the Raid 10 they are using. Then I discovered a very poor Memory Performance. I had around a third of the Bandwidth and a quadrupled latency of 291ns vs 69.1ns. I am no quite sure what is actually causing these long startup times so I created a table with all the data I had and made some tests on a second PC. I was able to get similar results as the Server (actually a bit better), but with an Intel Pentium E5400. It is a dual core processor and i only had 4GB Memory. The HDD Performance was much worse. The CPU Performance too and even with a bad SSD I got the read/write speeds of their HDD. In my SSD test with this setup I was at 60s startup time. The Capacity of the Memory was only 4GB and the Bandwidth was around the same (sometimes even worse), but the Latency has Improved alot 104ns.

 

My Results on Pastbin. Link: https://pastebin.com/n7JnadTv

I would like to see your benchmarks now together with the time your server needs to start (from first log message ("Dedicated host created") to the "Init sequence finished." message)

Please use the UserBenchmark tool (https://www.userbenchmark.com/). It makes it easier for me to compare and for you to share your results. And to get some representative results please close everything that needs CPU Performance or other heavy workloads maybe start the server several times ant calculate the average time (5 times in my case). And Use the default mission and everything else left on default settings.

I hope to get some results from you so I can figure out what the problem could be and on what everyone should pay attention to, if the want to host a server on their own.

Your Post then should contain the following information:

The UserBenchmark Link, The Type of Disk you ran the server on (SSD/HDD/SSHD) and The Time results you got (best would be 5).

OR anything else that could be helpful ;)

 

I wish you luck and good Performance In Chernarus ;)

LBmaster