3 ms·
There's no way the windows kernel is 1.89GiB. That's ridiculous.
by ronsor 7y ago
There's no way the windows kernel is 1.89GiB. That's ridiculous.
- dijit 7y agoSome things to note when talking about windows though; nearly their entire graphics stack lives in the kernel. They also have multiple environment subsystems running at the same time (POSIX, OS/2 and Win32) which, are running constantly and unavoidable, so I count them as kernel. In addition they have things like the “security reference monitor” which resides entirely in the kernel. It’s really apples to oranges, NT is truly heavy especially on server 2016 (which is where I grabbed the numbers) I have comparatively fewer 2012r2 machines but I can aggregate the numbers for those too if you like.