Windows XP Service Pack 2: a first look
Published: 24 Mar 2004
Performance and memory requirements
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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There is missing things in the conclusions:
1. It... utomo -
OOps I Tought the review based on Win Xp Sp2 Rc1 (... Utomo
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The reviewer makes a couple of naive and potential... David Wright
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I agree with David comments. the firewall is too s... Utomo
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While the ability to block pictures and HTML in Ou... Check Your SP2 Facts
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will the inclusion of xp sp2,orgment or
supersede... grahamlee
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Three things need clarifying.
Firstly, will the m... Charles Stewart
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I just uninstalled it. It killed my Panda Anti-Vi... Anonymous
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I have installed the release version of SP2 a... A Reynolds -
I am also having problems with sp2 and Panda.... Anonymous
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I uninstalled Service Pack 2 due to the... Doug Thompson -
I recentley installed SP2 on a laptop.
When the la... Anonymous
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This has happened also on my Packard Bell lap... Anon
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Here same problem, when unplugging my ro... Pierre -
I have the SAME problem.
With SP2 c... suz
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I have the same problem as you.
(acer ferrari... suz
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After installing sp2 on a packardbell ip... peter
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Installed it on top of SP1 on a machine I just rec... Mike Cartwright
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how did these people get sp2 Jack Hackman
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I have downloaded the Beta version of Windows XP S... Joe Wildeisen
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I have been running Winows xp with
service p... Anonymous
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I have been using winxp sp2 and i have to say big... John
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I downloaded and installed XP SP2 and found that w... David Blackford
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SP2 caused a major problem for me - a total crash... Peter hutchinson
