On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 15:56 +0200, Siegfried Wolkenstein wrote: > On Friday 04 May 2007 15:43:33 Eberhard Roloff wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I disagree on this one. From my experience Windoes indeed uses way more > > memory for a given task than Linux does. > That's probably true, but just boot windows and check out the memory usage. > Do the same on SuSE with kde and you'll see. On SuSE there are much more > processes running... > > I'm not saying Linux wastes lots of memory... >
It doesn't waste any memory is uses all of the spare memory for cache so that files are found faster and there by load faster. In the case of windows it just plain uses most of the memory for the running programs which are highly bloated to begin with. Why do you think most PC's cannot be upgraded to Vista without a memory upgrade? Because it is a memory H O G. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
