 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
1 edit | reply to Romney2012
I since I only have 1 Vista Home Premium and it originally came with 1 GB (horrific) on a Compaq AMD 64 3800+ and was horrific. I was able to get a deal on memory and upped it to 3GB.
On Fedora core, 1GB was more than enough.
The laptop came with 3GB
The main differences that I've noticed:
Linux by default = Kernel + a few daemons (sshd, syslogd, etc.) most are 'sleeping' and consuming very little RAM / cpu.
Windows by default has a significant amount of services running, and most 'builds' toss in a whole ton of junk, many consuming a lot of RAM while sleeping. I typically see many svchost.exe processes totalling up to ~200MB, IE consuming over 100MB, and cpu ~8-10%
On a server level, there's no comparison - I've had people wondering if monitoring was broken, as ntload would be all over the map (caching files, AV sweeps, reindexing, etc). The linux box sitting between 99% and 100% idle - of course an ftp server running on a quad Xeon 3.40GHz AS 3 box is WAY overkill
63 processes: 62 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.9%
cpu00 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.8%
cpu01 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
cpu02 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.8%
cpu03 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Mem: 4087688k av, 4066944k used, 20744k free, 0k shrd, 156344k buff
3082648k actv, 591032k in_d, 89060k in_c
Swap: 2048276k av, 0k used, 2048276k free 3639320k cached
Of course, for DB, I prefer a real box
prtdiag
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server
System clock frequency: 1012 MHz
Memory size: 32768 Megabytes
==================================== CPUs ====================================
CPU CPU Run L2$ CPU CPU
LSB Chip ID MHz MB Impl. Mask
--- ---- ---------------------------------------- ---- --- ----- ----
00 0 0, 1, 2, 3 2150 5.0 6 147
00 1 8, 9, 10, 11 2150 5.0 6 147
00 2 16, 17, 18, 19 2150 5.0 6 147
00 3 24, 25, 26, 27 2150 5.0 6 147
============================ Memory Configuration ============================
Memory Available Memory DIMM # of Mirror Interleave
LSB Group Size Status Size DIMMs Mode Factor
--- ------ ------------------ ------- ------ ----- ------- ----------
00 A 16384MB okay 2048MB 8 no 4-way
00 B 16384MB okay 2048MB 8 no 4-way
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en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to Romney2012
A lot of the 'junk' that the retailers add/bundle in are 'paid' installs that 3rd party companies want your business and throw in a whole bunch of trial ware / Toolbars (plague of the modern PC), and tons of apps that want to 'dial home'  for updates frequently.
Many peripherals have become that way, IMO.
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