It may not be much of a cpu by today's standards, but it runs a fully loaded OP4 server and a fully loaded L4D server at 30% cpu. You know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I"ll go back to W2K before I'll spend money upgrading the box.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryce Quilley" <[email protected]> To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 6:47 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Win2k versus 2003 versus 2008 on older hardware > 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
