Face off part two: Windows vs Linux real world RAM and disk tests
Last week I put Windows Vista Ultimate and Fedora Linux 9 to a test. The article hit the front page of Digg but received a lot of criticism by those disappointed with the performance of Internet Explorer. So, let's dig deeper and use Firefox to see if Internet Explorer's memory footprint is actually a Windows Vista "feature" or not. It's time for the ultimate smackdown: Internet Explorer vs Firefox on Vista.
To recap, I wanted to know how these two different systems performed internally when performing functionally identical tasks using the applications generally considered as the standard on those platforms. The results spoke extremely favourably for the way Linux handles memory.
On the Vista side, I used Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word and on the Linux side Firefox and OpenOffice Writer. Under Windows Vista the CPU usage continually fluctuates wildly even when idle. Yet, under Linux I had a consistent 1% CPU load whenever idle. Additionally, Linux only began using swap space on disk when I loaded up enough applications and data to fill the available RAM. By contrast Windows Vista began swapping out to disk even when 2GB of RAM was still available.
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