Installing Win2k8 will make things worse. You need a minimum of 2GB ram for it to function. Upgrade your CPU man, a Sempron is the cheapest piece of crap and was NEVER intended for server operation. At a bare minimum a P4 2.8 with 1GB ram will run Win2k3 perfectly. Win2k8 will need dual core with 2GB ram.
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Kyle Sanderson <[email protected]>wrote: > The general consensus with Server 2008 is it's more... gobbled up than > 2003. > However if you find it works better for you on older hardware (I would be > shocked if it did), please let us know! > > Kyle. > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Ook <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Adding more ram isn't likely to help - it doesn't use what it has as-is. > > > > I tried Linux for a while, but hlds used 30% cpu sitting there empty - > and > > it went downhill from there. This old cpu isn't up to running the linux > > hlds > > binaries - the general consensus is that valve never bothered to optimize > > them for linux hence they gobble excessive cpu. And yeah, I'm leaning > > towards putting Win2k back on the box. I have a copy of server 2008 that > I > > think I'll install just so I can say I did, and to tell everyone how > lousy > > it is wiht this older box LOL. Or maybe it will surprise me and actually > > work good? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kyle Sanderson" <[email protected]> > > To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" > > <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:53 PM > > Subject: Re: [hlds] Win2k versus 2003 versus 2008 on older hardware > > > > > > > Why would adding more ram decrease the CPU usage on SRCDS? > > > > > > If I were you Ook I would go back to Win2000 as Microsoft only gets > > > sloppier > > > with their new releases of Windows. (Or try Linux, although from my > > > experiences SRCDS tends to use more CPU and Ram on it.) > > > Kyle. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Mike O'Laughlen > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > >> Add more RAM. > > >> > > >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Ook <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > 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 > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > >> please visit: > > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
