ornate remnant
Howdy, everyone! I was wondering if any of you have experience hosting game servers on PlayFab Multiplayer Servers.
My Unity game server is architected in a way that allows a single server process to host multiple game sessions at the same time. What I understand about PlayFab Multiplayer Servers, at the moment, is that PlayFab will spin up one container (i.e., one process) that is dedicated to a single game session. Is my understanding correct?
ornate remnant
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gentle stirrup
Yeah, in PlayFab MPS, one process/container is 1 session and it is allocated in that manner.
ornate remnant
Thank you, Rakesh!
Have others asked whether there is a workaround to this allocation mechanic? I really would like a single game server process to host multiple game sessions.
The reason is the resource utilization of my game server process is such that I can't run that many processes on a given machine.
Facts about my game server process
(collected from an AWS EC2 t2.small instance, 1 vCPU core, 2 GB RAM)
Resource utilization of game server process at idle (i.e. not hosting any games)
267 MB resident memory
8% utilization of a single CPU core
If this box was a PlayFab Multiplayer server, I would only be able to run maybe 6 or 7 processes due to the 2 GB RAM ceiling. Since my game is a two-player turn-based card game, that would mean the server could host, at maximum, 12 to 14 players concurrently.
Do I have the right read?
@gentle stirrup ^
I'm sure there are plenty of 1v1 games hosted on PlayFab Multiplayer servers. How did those game companies solve this problem?
ornate remnant
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