TAG | Face off: Windows vs Linux real world RAM and disk tests |
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| by David M Williams | |
| Tuesday, 22 July 2008 | |
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Page 4 of 4 Windows’ memory usage went up by 0.07GB, or 71.68MB. The CPU still fluctuated madly but hung around 20%. Under Fedora, memory usage increased by only 50MB and with a maximum processor utilisation of 4%, shortly resuming to 1% while sitting idle (with Windows still jumping all about.) Closing each application did release the memory and this was reliably repeated over several tests. However, opening Microsoft Word multiple times – including with a large 53 page document – did consume substantially more memory than the equivalent actions and document with OpenOffice Writer. Additionally, Fedora’s processor usage remained in low numbers, and barely rose above 1% when idle. Featured Whitepaper
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