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Win2000 versus Win server 20003 on old hardware

Discussion in 'Microsoft Windows' started by Zootal, Sep 18, 2009.

  1. Zootal

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    I have an older box, AMD Sempron 2400+, 1GB ram, that I use for to run a
    couple of half-life servers. I upgraded it from Win2000 to server 2003, and
    when I did I noticed a significant increase in cpu consumption. On the
    Win2000 box, the server executables would use maybe 30% cpu when fully
    populated. 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.

    Anyone have experience running server 2003 on older hardware re.
    performance?
     

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