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What is a Class 5 Server ??
Count Mercier
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Join date: 21 Nov 2006
Posts: 5
01-25-2008 07:45
When people say class 5 server what type of server are they reffering to ??

The exact name of the server would be the most helpfull to me,, ty
Mo Dryke
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01-25-2008 07:49
I think it's a class 4 server, +1.


























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Sindy Tsure
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Join date: 18 Sep 2006
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01-25-2008 09:01
When they talk about servers, they're talking about the physical hardware that SL runs on.. There's a number of different kinds of servers but when they talk about "class this" or "class that" servers, they're talking about ones that run the sim processes - the servers that make up the regions on the grid.

Since LL has _thousands_ of sim servers, they're not going to just buy the latest box from Dell when they add new ones - they want them all to be a specific hardware recipe that they _know_ is going to work a certain way and have specific performance characteristics. The "class" of a sim server refers to this hardware recipe.

From http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/10/16/looking-forward-to-class-5/
From: Ian Linden
... So, here’s what’s different under the hood: we’ve been all-AMD for years, but are moving from the Opteron 270 to the Intel Xeon 5148 - a low-power version of Intel’s new Core 2 Duo based server CPUs. This gives us better performance for fewer watts, while supporting our standard 64-bit OS image. We’ve also doubled the RAM per machine from 2GB to 4GB and moved to a faster SATA disk, which usually won’t make much of a difference, but should reduce the stalls sometimes seen by heavy regions during autosaves. Finally, there are fewer, bigger system fans, and power supply efficiency goes from 67% to 84%; power usage while running the sim process is about 175 watts, vs. 230 for a Class 4. ...

There may be more tech info around on what exactly they use in their servers but I haven't seen it.