I have an older box, AMD Sempron 2400+, 1GB ram, that I use for to run an OP4 server (hlds.exe) and a L4D server (srcds.exe). With Win2000 and both servers full, cpu is about 30%.
I upgraded it from Win2000 to server 2003, and when I did I noticed a significant increase in cpu consumption. On the Winserver 2003 box, it used 80-90% cpu. My first guess was that the cpu scheduler in server 2003 has more overhead and the context switches were using up all the extra cpu. My second guess was that I really didn't have a clue why. On both installations I stopped all services I didn't think needed to be running. I have a copy of Server 2008, but I'm thinking this box may be too old to run that. Also performance under 2003 wasn't that great, I'm not sure it would be any better under 2008. Anyone have experience running server 2003/2008 on older hardware re. performance? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
