Questions about scalablity

[vinodm]

Hello Kent,

We recently had a tourney with 600 players. When so many players logged in, mavens server started displaying messages : Out of system resources and the tourney never started.

Here are some stats:

Ram usage : 3.60 GB

processor : still more power

Bandwidth : still more available

Application scalability (all arrays etc) : In question.

Mavens can safely hold 300 concurrent players.

Here are a few questions about this issue :

1) Would installing the 64bit version use more available RAM?

2) Is mavens programmed at the application level for more scalablity.

3) Any further suggestions about scaling?

[Kent Briggs]

1) Would installing the 64bit version use more available RAM?

Yes, 64 bit apps have full access to all available memory whereas 32 bit apps max out somewhere between 3 and 4 GB as you observed.

2) Is mavens programmed at the application level for more scalablity.

No, it's a single server system.

3) Any further suggestions about scaling?

About the only solution is to get multiple licenses and put them on multiple servers, treating each one as an independent room. Then create a central login site on your web site and then direct the player to a specific server.