First Look: Windows XP Service Pack 2

By Kai Schmerer, ZDNet UK
25 March 2004 10:29 AM
Tags: sp2, windows, preview, xp, service, os, pack, screenshots
Performance and memory requirements

 Windows XP SP2


 Introduction

 Improved network protection
 Memory overflow protection
 Safer e-mail handling
 More secure Internet browsing
 Improved Windows Update
 Requirements
 Conclusions
 Screenshots

A glance at the number of the processes, threads and handles shows clearly that more is happening under Service Pack 2 compared to its predecessors. The fact that Windows Firewall is active and Security Center (which examines all security-related features) runs in the background also makes for a higher memory load.

At the moment, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 is slightly slower than its predecessors. However, this may change when the final version is released.

XP Service Pack 2: performance & memory requirements

XP installation
Windows XP SP1 DX9b
Windows XP SP1 (updates 11.3)
Windows XP SP2 (build 2082)

Files/folders
9780/710
10104/738
11596/830
Footprint
1,212.9MB
1,286.8MB
1,856.7MB
Handles
3,178
3,277
4,512
Threads
252
242
302
Processes
15
15
19
Memory
522.99MB
522.99MB
522.99MB
Available
419.4MB
415.7MB
391.5MB
System cache
62.9MB
83.8MB
130.3MB
Kernel memory
12.6MB
12.6MB
16.8MB
Paged
7.7MB
7.8MB
11.4MB
Non-paged
4.9MB
4.9MB
5.3MB
Windows XP startup
20s
19s
25s
Comanche4
70.6fps
70.9fps
70.0fps
Business Disk WinMark
10.3MB/s
9.9MB/s
9.4MB/s
CPU utilisation
7.2%
7.6%
7.6%
High-end Disk WinMark
24.9MB/s
25.0MB/s
26.1MB/s
CPU utilisation
2.96%
3.2%
3.4%
Business Winstone 2004
25.9
25.7
23.9
CPU utilisation
55.1%
54.9%
53.7%



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