On Thursday 2016-05-12 11:45 -0400, Ted Mielczarek wrote:
> requirement for x86-64 processors, and the overall performance should
> generally be better (modulo memory usage, I'm not sure if we have an
> exact comparison). Additionally 64-bit builds are much less likely to
> encounter OOM crashes due to address space fragmentation since they have
> a very large address space compared to the maximum 4GB available to the
> 32-bit builds.

Might it be worth considering automatically updating users on
machines with 6GB (roughly) or more of RAM, but leaving alone users
with less RAM?

-David

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