Interesting WoW server facts for nerds
Posted: 18 Sep 2009 15:34
Couldn't find any post about this here yet, but on a Dutch tech site (http://tweakers.net/nieuws/62556/world- ... pslag.html) they released information today about the WoW servers and such.
Conclusion:
13250 bladeservers
75000 CPU cores
112.5TB RAM
1.3PB of data
4600 employers working for WoW
Patch 3.1 used up 4.7PB of data sent to players
245 people in the test team
so far 180.000 bugs have been found and solved
WoW is 5.5 million lines of code, written in C++ and LUA
2056 game masters
340 billing masters for payment problems
With every patch, all quest are done by the testers to see if they are still working
... in 10 languages
Conclusion:
13250 bladeservers
75000 CPU cores
112.5TB RAM
1.3PB of data
4600 employers working for WoW
Patch 3.1 used up 4.7PB of data sent to players
245 people in the test team
so far 180.000 bugs have been found and solved
WoW is 5.5 million lines of code, written in C++ and LUA
2056 game masters
340 billing masters for payment problems
With every patch, all quest are done by the testers to see if they are still working
... in 10 languages