class 4 class 5

oke i must be honest and say i don't have any experience about islands, i need little explanation about so i can decide what i want and what i exactly need.

my question is ..what is difference between class4 and server class5 for private islands.
i know that server 5 is faster but how much, and what exactly that mean for me. probably less laggy place or something , but if anyone can explain to me ..please.

probably when u have empty island with no AV and object on , there is no difference i mean u cant "see" diff...but that difference become "visible" after rezing making scripts working and many av'a on islnad...but i dunno that edge..
Thank you

btw sorry for my "perfect" language..i really wrestle

Class 5s are *this* many <waves hands around>, and class 4s are *this* many <waves hands around differently>

Seriously, there's no answer to how much faster one is than the other, as it depends on all sorts of conditions such as number of avs, number and types of scripts running, how many physics calculations are being performed etc.

From my experience, the main benefit you'll see from class 5s is in script performance, but YMMV.

My experience is script performance as well.

I concur. Scripts are the big noticable difference.

Class 5 will get you at least twice as many scripts with the same cpu load and up to 3 times depending on what they are.

Everything else? I have not noticed anything demonstrably "better" about a class 5 sim over class 4. Physics might also work a bit faster but that's ususaly not an in your face kind of thing ilke scripts lag is.

Everything else is client lag, asset server lag or network lag inside LL. Class 5 dooesn't help with any of that at all. Class 5 machines also seem to be prone to the same inter sim lagging as class 4 machines from what I've seen too.

Bottom line? For a personal sim, class 4s are great, for a popular club where people with there average of 200 script each in personal hardware or a dense script heavy mall, Class 5 would be beneficial.

I think the OP was asking for technical specs on class 4 vs. class 5 servers, which is available in this old blog post: http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/10/16/looking-forward-to-class-5/

Essentially, here is how they compare:

Class 4:
AMD Opteron 270 CPU
2GB RAM

Class 5
Intel Xeon 5148
4GB RAM
A faster SATA disk

P2

HEH! At that rate I'm basically using a Class 4 for a Desktop system!

*same CPU, just different "socket"- socket 939 vs 940.

tnx to all for INFO ...