KB932375 & KB935926 increase memory usage…is that bad?

While searching for the golden hotfix (does it even exist..?).
I tried installing KB932375 & KB935926 post windows 2003 sp2 hotfixes (which didn’t help btw) but I found that these fixes change the memory usage of my Terminal Server but that was not all…

It also looks that installing these fixes has an effect on the pagefile usage.
This is what memory and pagefile usage looks like on a server WITHOUT the hotfixes
withoutkb935926-available-memory

withoutkb935926-pagefile-usage

And WITH the hotfixes installed, the world on a TS looks like this:
withkb935926-available-memory

withkb935926-pagefile-usage

Without the fixes, about 2.5 GB memory is available.
With the hotfixes installed the server has about 1.7, 1.8 GB of memory left.
Pagefile usage is almost the exact opposite: Without fixes:30% pagefile usage and with: just below 20.
I’m still not sure which of these is better(contact me if you have a definitive answer) . This might become an issue for more sysadmins if MS ever releases SP3 for Windows 2003!

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