[Coldstuff] Running Cold under MacOS X

Luc Van den Borre lucv@mail.com
Fri, 14 Sep 2001 02:06:46 +0200


Hello,

Bruce Mitchener wrote:
| The Eternal City (TEC)
| (http://www.skotos.net/games/eternal-city/) is written in Cold, has a
| roughly 2G DB (although, better DB compression in an unreleased version
| of Genesis chopped that by 500M), has several hundred players and has
| been running for 4-5 years.

This is probably the largest Cold server out there, right? What kind of server
(RAM, Processor) do you need for sustaining 'several hundred players'?

| TEC is currently using a fairly advanced version of the driver that
| isn't released yet that is significantly faster, has better DB
| compression, etc.  I'll get around to releasing that at some point.

Cool, I look forward to seeing that.

--Luc