Production Specs / Performance tips

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  1. Versions: Nakama 3.12 Linux binaries
  2. Server Framework Runtime language: Go

Hey everyone! Hope this message finds you all well.

I’m currently making a load test scenario in a 2cpu / 4gb ram Linux machine hosting both cockroach single node and nakama server. I’ve tweaked the ulimit and net.core specs.

I have 3 other smaller machines simulating several clients in different threads running a C# console app.

If I just connect those clients to nakama I can get up to 30k (10k per machine), but whenever I start to have those “players” joining matches the server starts lagging and I can get up to 1.5k players connected in a match before the server stops answering.

Also if I have those players sending messages from every 0.5s the server manages to handle up to 500 players only.

I know my config is not ideal, so I wonder if anyone could provide some tips for how I can tweak and get more of a single machine with nakama.

To sum up my specs, I’ll list it below:

Ubuntu server 2 CPU 4 ram, with nakama and cockroach single node

Relay matches between players

ulimit tweaked

Thank you all in advance

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The only suggestion right now is to separate the database instance from the Nakama instance. I see you are using a single machine but that alone should bring a large increase in performance.