On Nov 15, 2007, at 18:39, erik quanstrom wrote:
it's kind of silly to run 64-bit linux on a machine with <= 4GB of memory.
unless, as you said, you need the registers (eh) or the direct vlong (nice for some things).
my new cpu server has 4GB today. i was shocked at how cheap it was. if the software can make use of it, upgrades beyond that are certainly not out of the question. it'd be nice to not have to worry about upas/fs eating all my ram. ;-)
also, i think there is benefit to early support for the "up and coming" platform. it's clearly the direction things are headed (although Windows has slowed that down some).
For those who've run it, do we have performance numbers for 8c vs 6c in various instances?
Anthony
