RAM timings and latency with CB

Been pondering what would be more efficient while running Craftbukkit servers; lower CAS latency, or higher RAM clocks? I know the basics about which is more efficient in certain scenarios, but I am not quite sure where it fits in with CB since I do not know the inner-most working of it. I've been an OC tweaker since I built first rig, and now that same rig is hosting my CB server. I have quite a bit of room to tweak my RAM, and was just very curious about it.

I haven't seen a single topic about this. Discussion, anybody?
And please, no comments about how it doesn't make a difference we can notice; I just want to be as efficient as possible.

 

But it doesn't matter. It's like you're asking if you should take the paint off of your car because it adds a bit of weight. Any performance gains that you get will be so tiny they would fit within the range of performance that your server would randomly fluctuate in from second to second.

 

Seriously? If you want to complain about what I'm asking, then don't even reply.
I do large-scale operations with CB servers. I generate 5+ Gigabyte worlds quite often, and my server has 5k+ mobs in loaded chunks at any given time. It does make a difference to me.

 

Woah, you should try MobManager
Pathfinding provides quite a load on your CPU.
And I am sure there is no need for most of those mobs.

I would imagine lower latency would help more. More so if you happened to be using a RAM Disk for your worlds.
But remember that the actual latency is determined by the combination of RAM timings and clock speed.

 

Becuase you don't seem to realize how frivolous RAM timings/latency is on a Minecraft server.

Almost everybody does. I generate 2-3gb flat worlds and my block history logs get up to 100,000,000 entries per table. It still doesn't make a different.

 

Would you mind stopping to recommend your plugin to every single post on this forum. I'm just going through the topics and in almost every topic I see, there is some sort of reply with a link to your plugin. People will find it if they need it.

That would really depend. Higher RAM clocks would possibly help, but what is your current rate? Lower CAT latency's help too, just the same as probably getting a step higher on CPU clock rate. Every bit helps, whether it would be CPU, RAM, CAT or whatever, I really wouldn't bother if your server already runs fine.

 

astroskillz

Really Q_Q.... I linked it on 2-3 threads. Calm your farm buddy.

 

Instead of marking off my question as "frivolous", why don't you actually look at what I'm asking? Just because it doesn't seem important to you, doesn't mean it is a useless question. It intrigues me, and I'm wanting to have a discussion about it instead of defending my curiosity to thread bashers.

Interesting plugin, I'll check it out in the morning.

Very true; my current RAM settings are low latency, low frequency.

I ended up sticking with low latency for testing for now.
I have watercooling on my CPU but it isn't quite efficient due to bad heat spreading; or else my clocks would be higher. My RAM timings have been tightened a bit, but I suspect they can be tweaked lower. The reason I have a strange frequency is due to a 100.40MHz bus multiplier. Since it's Ivy Bridge, you up the Multiplier but can't touch the bus much. View attachment 13211

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

ShadowSplicer

You should have your RAM running at at least 1600MHz imo.
That clock speed + timings of 7, 7, 7, 19 gives you (very close to) an equivalent latency. With more bandwidth!

If you didn't know already, Latency (In nano-seconds, for given operation) = Timing (for the given operation) / ClockSpeed (In GHz)

 

This RAM isn't made for much OC; it's mainly for show. Only reason I got it is that it was super cheap and had LEDs. (Picture attached; you can see the RAM sparkling lol). The timing I can get with 7, 7, 7, 19 is 1333MHz, which really isn't that good
I originally said I had room to tweak the RAM, because I'm planning on replacing it sometime. Just curious to see if I should be buying extreme frequency, or low latency RAM lol.

And yeah, I know the basics on latency. But just basics I'm not sure the bandwidth CB needs, so I dropped the latency as much as I could because I figured it runs on tons of teeny operations per second (for regular server operation).