On 06/11/2007 Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > Jonas Meurer wrote: >> On 06/11/2007 Hartmut Manz wrote: >>> The correct debian port for INTEL Core2Duo is amd64 or i386. >>> If your system has not more than 2 GB of memory installed I would recommend >>> to still use the 32bit Linux (i386), If you have more memory installed use >>> the 64-bit Linux (amd64) >> >> Do you have any reasons for that suggestion? Which disadvantages does >> the amd64 port have on system with up to 2GB of RAM? > > a 64 bits system consume more memory than a 32 bits system for each pointer > and long (going from 32 bits = 4 bytes to 64 bits = 8 bytes) and also have > higher alignment requirements.
Ok, the fact that pointers and long/double variables on 64bit systems do take twice as much RAM as on ia32 systems sounds reasonable. Thanks for information. > Rumors say that most processes consume about 30% more RAM > > Hence the hint (even if the 2Gb RAM threshold is arbitrary) 30% is quite a lot. Can you point me to postings/articles/etc. which claim to have discovered this? greetings, jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
