Alaska
AAdmincraft
•Created by Alaska on 7/6/2023 in #questions
CPU Upgrade For Vanilla Server With Poor TPS
Does anyone know what kind of single core performance a vanilla Minecraft server needs? I'm specifically looking for a metric in mOPs/second.
Symptom - I recently moved all my homelab infrastructure to a Dell Poweredge R710 (old I know but I basically got it for free) and my vanilla Minecraft server is "struggling to keep up" with a TPS between 60-100. When I run the server my RAM slowly gets eaten up and my CPU load caps out at around 30% so this leads me to believe my single core performance is not up to par.
Proposed Solution - From what I understand Minecraft servers primarily utilize one core. I currently have two E5620's and I plan on upgrading to two Xeon 5680's. I will link a performance comparison chart here (https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1312vs1249/Intel-Xeon-X5680-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5620), what I have vs what I plan to upgrade to. Would this upgrade let me run my server normally again?
A couple things to note:
- I am running this server on a Windows 10 VM hosted in ESXi 6.7
- I have a stable 1Gbps connection
- I have a Dell SAS6/ir raid contoller with 2 SSD's in a RAID 0. The controller caps out at 3GB/s but my real world performance is roughly 280 MB/s
- The only thing with any large amount of entities in my world is an Iron Golem Farm
Any information/direction is appreciated as I don't have much experience running Minecraft servers in general. Thanks!
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