The response I have gotten from the Server Core posts has been pretty good, tons of emails and a several comments posted directly to the blog. Seems people are very interested; that is very good IMO. Some of the emails were asking questions like “We keep hearing it is so much lighter and uses less resources, can you say anything more about that?”
Not really, but I will give it a shot… I just now built a bare bones Server Core guest and a bare bones Full Server guest (both Beta 3) to specifically gather some specs. I loaded the VMWare Tools on the virtuals as well because it annoys me when they aren’t running. Here are the specs:
Full Server
Dirs: 22009
Files: 38810
Bytes: 6,359,811,812
Full Reg Dump: 78,976,210 bytes
(From Task Manager – no load)
Physical Memory (MB)
Total: 510
Cached: 336
Free: 6
Kernel Memory (MB)
Total: 58
Paged: 38
Nonpaged: 19
System
Handles: 7740
Threads: 403
Processes: 37
Page File: 230M / 1509M
Server Core
Dirs: 9223
Files: 13022
Bytes: 1,803,802,566
Full Reg Dump: 39,926,858 bytes
(From Task Manager – no load)
Physical Memory (MB)
Total: 510
Cached: 185
Free: 191
Kernel Memory (MB)
Total: 42
Paged: 26
Nonpaged: 16
System
Handles: 5826
Threads: 306
Processes: 28
Page File: 169M / 1509M
Deltas
Dirs: -12786 (58.1% reduction)
Files: -25788 (66.4% reduction)
Bytes: -4556009246 (71.6% reduction)
Full Reg Dump: -39049352 bytes (49.4% reduction)
(From Task Manager – no load)
Physical Memory (MB)
Total: Same
Cached: -151 (44.9% reduction)
Free: +185 (3083.3% increase)
Kernel Memory (MB)
Total: -16 (27.6% reduction)
Paged: -12 (31.6% reduction)
Nonpaged: -3 (15.8% reduction)
System
Handles: -1914 (24.7% reduction)
Threads: -97 (24.1% reduction)
Processes: -9 (24.3% reduction)
Page File: -61 (26.5% reduction)
