8in1 SingleBoxing

[phara]

With my fairly crappy specs, I can run 5 clients no problem at all and 7 when I need to swap stuff around or trade to my banks. It just takes a bit of extra patience to let the operating system cache WoW's data fully before WoW starts thrashing the hard disk.

@bsdll - How do have your game folders set up (single, multiple copies, symlinks)? Sounds like you may have full game folder copies. I normally run 5 but have run 6 before and it' still blazing fast using symlinks for the data folder. I had multiple full copies at one time on a single disk and that killed performance when loading, entering a city, or opening the map.

@frozen - This is pretty sweet. I think I'll set up Ubuntu for my 5box system =p

[twigboy2000]

Hmm, I'm not so sure the lockups are KDE related but I intend to find out when I get home tonight. I've experienced the same thing on one of my systems running kubuntu 8.04. It happens with any 3D game and sometimes when watching DVD's. From what I had read, the issues stem from my XFX 790i ultra board. My older system has an ASUS M2N32-SLI and it runs just fine.

It's been my understanding that there are issues with the firmware in the nforce 7x0i series boards and some combination of geforce driver and kernel 2.6.24 and older. I'm upgrading the newer system to Kubuntu 8.10 beta this week to see if the newer kernel doesn't resolve the lockups. That system is stable when running XP. I'll give gnome a try tonight to see if that makes a difference.

-twig

[frozen]

As for my maximizer setup and so on.. Pastbin link As for writing a guide.. I'll try to do so in my spare time.

I run
Wine 1.1.6~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1 (hardy)
Nvidia 169.12 (Geforce 8800GT-512)
Ubuntu Linux-x86_64 (quad) (8 wow's peg all four cores at approx 97%-99%)
8gig memory (unnecessary overkill 4g is plenty 8 wow's barely uses 64% mem with 4g)
When I get together some relevant information in say... guide format I will post.

Oh and on a fun note. I let the smoke out of the system yesterday. heh Seems that doing all this with a 420w power supply is not the best idea. Even though I believe that to be the min req for my setup.
Needless to say I picked up a 650w ps from Frys for $54 and my system seems to be happy with that. Yes I got lucky only the ps caught fire. hehe

Oh and as for KDE random lockups.. My friend has an identical system to mine except he runs KDE instead of gnome. His has random lockups all the time.