⚙️ Hardware Allocation

The Hardware Allocation page is a mission-critical performance utility that allows you to micro-manage how system resources are distributed across your server cluster, ensuring maximum stability and minimum latency.

📝 Page Overview

• Route: /hardware
• Purpose: CPU affinity binding, process priority management, and resource contention prevention.
• Aesthetic: Technical "Blue & Slate" interface with interactive topology grids and precision controls.

🚀 Key Modules

1. CPU Affinity Orchestrator (🧠)

Take direct control over the host's processor architecture:

• Topology Awareness: Automatically detects the total number of logical cores available on the host machine.
• Precision Core Binding: Assign specific server instances to designated CPU cores. This prevents multiple servers from competing for the same physical resource, which is the primary cause of "TPS lag" in high-population environments.
• Isolation Logic: Easily reserve specific cores for the operating system while pinning game processes to dedicated performance cores.

2. Process Priority Tuner (⚡)

Optimize how the Windows kernel treats your game server threads:

• Multi-Level Grading: Select from Idle, Normal, Above Normal, High, and RealTime priority levels.
• Performance Gating: Elevating a server to High priority ensures it receives CPU cycles before background tasks, significantly reducing tick-rate jitter.
• Safety Safeguards: Integrated warnings regarding RealTime priority, which can potentially starve the host OS of resources if used incorrectly.

3. Visual Topology Grid

An interactive map of your system's processing power:

• Real-Time Core Mapping: A responsive grid representing every logical core in your system.
• Visual Allocation: Cores are color-coded and illuminated with a blue glow when assigned to the currently selected server.
• Contention Prevention: Visual feedback prevents you from accidentally leaving a server with zero assigned cores.

4. Cluster-Wide Resource Planning

• Instance Isolation: View and manage allocations for every server in your cluster from a single pane.
• Persistence Layer: Settings are saved directly to the instance configuration and applied automatically during the next server boot sequence.

🛠️ Interface Controls

• Core Toggle: Click individual cores in the grid to add or remove them from the server's affinity mask.
• "Use All Cores" [Switch]: Quickly revert to default OS-managed scheduling for a specific instance.
• Priority Selector: Dropdown menu for instant process weight adjustment.
• Save Settings [Disk]: Commit changes to the backend. (Note: Requires a server restart to take effect).

🎨 Design Notes

• Blueprint Aesthetic: Uses a darker slate theme with bright blue accents to convey a "low-level hardware" feel.
• Interactive States: Cores feature zoom-on-hover and glow-on-select animations using Tailwind transitions.
• Status Badges: High-contrast icons (Cpu, Server, Save) help navigate the complex configuration options.