The results of all experimental runs are summarized in
Table 2. During the first run (with 128 MB RAM), the CPU
temperature rises were not significant. However, it took over
20 hours for the CPU to finish the run. This could be
explained as follows: since the RAM amount is Considerably
smaller than the minimum memory requirements (230 MB)
for the execution of the application, the CPU had to use
virtual memory to make up for this shortage. Therefore, the
CPU had to constantly switch tasks from program execution
to data paging to the hard drive. The data paging task is
considerably less intensive than program execution. As a
result, the CPU utilization during the execution of the
application is not 100% as seen in Figure 3. Consequently,
the CPU temperature rise was minimal.