Old Dual Pentium III 500Mhz Servers

[Tim]

On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 22:40 +0000, Aaron Gray wrote:
> The new machines seem slower than the old ones were when they were
> originally put on line 4 or 5 years ago when running Apache
>  
> It this a F11 v FC5 thing, or can I claw back some cycles by disabling
> some services and streamlineing Apache ?

Is it just a server?  Turn off the graphical mode, and leave it running
at run level 3, there'll be less intensive stuff being needlessly done
by the computer.  That, and the obvious turn off all the services that
you don't need.

Over the years, I've seen Fedora get more efficient, then someone takes
advantage of that and makes the next release do more work (fancier X,
fancier audio, etc.), and it becomes more of a slug, needing newer
faster hardware.