Hi, My box is a working and fully configured Gentoo system, which is uptodate.
For the sake of being able to address more RAM and for more calculation power (mainly for rendering purposes) I want to migrate to 64bit. I googled for some tutorial but found nothing appropiate (one post asked for the downtime to be expected while migrating a server -- something which not applies to me...). My questions are: 1) Is there a performance gain, when migrating to 64bit if the target applications supports 64bit? 2) Is it possible - if( true ){ how(); } - to """simply""" "convert" a 32bit system to 64 bit. "Simply" in my case means: Simpler ways than starting right from the bare metal of a virgin harddisk and doing the same stuff I did for the current system again... ;) 3) Is there some tutorial, which show me the path to go? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc