Hands down, that would be MineOS CRUX. A distro designed from the ground up for doing nothing but running Minecraft servers. Sitting idle (without a server running), the entire OS (all while running SSHD, MYSQL, a web server, and more) uses a mere 25MB of RAM with the default kernel, and a minuscule 9MB after you customize the kernel for your hardware.
Hands down, that would be MineOS CRUX. A distro designed from the ground up for doing nothing but running Minecraft servers. Sitting idle (without a server running), the entire OS (all while running SSHD, MYSQL, a web server, and more) uses a mere 25MB of RAM with the default kernel, and a minuscule 9MB after you customize the kernel for your hardware.
Yep! Or Canary, or any other server wrapper you choose. :smile.gif: It's just Linux! Only it's very specifically tailored to run Java as lean and mean as possible, while providing everything you need for Minecraft as well... 'an interactive web-user interface for managing your Minecraft servers, MySQL for mods and PHP/hiawatha webserver for hosting forums or image galleries', etc.
Yep! Or Canary, or any other server wrapper you choose. :smile.gif: It's just Linux! Only it's very specifically tailored to run Java as lean and mean as possible, while providing everything you need for Minecraft as well... 'an interactive web-user interface for managing your Minecraft servers, MySQL for mods and PHP/hiawatha webserver for hosting forums or image galleries', etc.
All in 25MB of overhead!
Sounds great, my friend should get a bigger hard drive and some more RAM though. :biggrin.gif:
EDIT:I just got Windows XP to only use 25MB of RAM. What is this...
Screw Windows, indeed. Windows is not a suitable operating system for any server application. I would also recommend MineOS CRUX. The distribution is lightweight and fast, and there is an easy web interface used to manage your server (or servers!).
Any server distro will do perfect as long as you don't have a desktop gui set up.
Completely agreed with this. Minecraft runs best when running in server mode. I use CentOS on my server. You'll probably have to configure firewall rules using iptables but it's not that hard to do. Mine is running off an old single core 2.1ghz and less than 1gb of ram and runs pretty darn smooth.
But definitely agreed, run it in server mode, not gui. The whole point of a dedicated server is to provide dedicated resources to the applications you are hosting, not a fancy interface :smile.gif:
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iptables -A INPUT -s annoyingpeople -p life --dport ALL -j REJECT
This will work with Bukkit right?
EDIT:Wait, I think I figured it out.
Yep! Or Canary, or any other server wrapper you choose. :smile.gif: It's just Linux! Only it's very specifically tailored to run Java as lean and mean as possible, while providing everything you need for Minecraft as well... 'an interactive web-user interface for managing your Minecraft servers, MySQL for mods and PHP/hiawatha webserver for hosting forums or image galleries', etc.
All in 25MB of overhead!
Sounds great, my friend should get a bigger hard drive and some more RAM though. :biggrin.gif:
EDIT:I just got Windows XP to only use 25MB of RAM. What is this...
EDIT: Screw Windows
Completely agreed with this. Minecraft runs best when running in server mode. I use CentOS on my server. You'll probably have to configure firewall rules using iptables but it's not that hard to do. Mine is running off an old single core 2.1ghz and less than 1gb of ram and runs pretty darn smooth.
But definitely agreed, run it in server mode, not gui. The whole point of a dedicated server is to provide dedicated resources to the applications you are hosting, not a fancy interface :smile.gif: