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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But Windows also does pre caching?

[–] Perhyte@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It probably just didn't mark that memory as "used" in the task manager.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I discovered this about 20yrs ago and there's been a lot of drugs & drink since then.

I do remember I could open my shit-hot 256Mb RAM desktop with Windows XP taskmanager and it shows a whopping 128Mb free RAM. 😎

Then I'd boot into my '733T H4X0r' Suse Linux 7.3 and top would show 5Mb free RAM. 😱

This caused much upset until I found out the two OS's have (had?) fundamentally different memory utilisation philosophies.

May not be the case anymore but it was late 90s/early 00s.