Should I have any issues hosting Minecraft on a dedicated server running an Intel Atom D525? [closed]

Question

UPDATE It was NOT GOOD ENOUGH AT ALL, but a Xeon quad-core rig did the trick!

Anyone have experience with these chips?

So far I've had up to 6 on at once during testing periods and everyone said it performed fine with no lag.

The specs are CentOS, Intel Atom Dual-Core 1.8 Ghz D525, 4GB RAM DDR3-1333, SATA II HDD, 100Mb/s output.

Currently I am only running pure Vanilla, but I wish to add Bukkit and some plugins, and if the server can handle everything, I'd like to put Mono on there for McMyAdmin as well.

Do you think we could have 20-30 players going at once on this rig?

I am not sure how different an Intel Atom in a server is compared to a netbook one, but this server seems to be performing great as a whole thus far.

It's possible that the RAM/MOBO/HDD/NET are making more of a difference and the CPU is less of a factor, but I'm not sure.

Answer 1

I run a minecraft server for a couple of mates; its got pretty much the same spec processor (an old intel thing), and I've found that it's the RAM that can be more of a problem. You'll need 2GiB at the very least, else you won't be able to support more than 2/3 players. 20/30 is a very ambitious target, I struggle with 8 or 9. If you want that many players you'll need to up the memory and processor, to 8GiB (minecraft can be hungry) and either a 2.5GHz dual core or a quad core processor, where more cores is preferable. I would also suggest looking at the spoutcraft server, it is much less RAM hungry than vanilla minecraft.