> I am not an expert on this; but if it's a 64-bit processor, you probably
> want amd64 unless it's an Itanium, in which case you want ia64. Look
> through the literature to see if your processor has EM64T support. If it
> does, you want amd64. See http://www.debian.org/ports/ for more information.
> i386 will probably also work, but if you have more than 4G of RAM you will not
> be able to exploit it to maximum effect unless you are running a 64-bit port.
>
I am currently running i386 with 8gb of RAM using the -bigmem kernel.
As I understand, each process becomes limited by 3GB or so of RAM. I
can't really comprehend why any *desktop* user would need/want 64bit
at this time. Although, 64bit doesn't have the java and flash issues
it had not long ago, I would not be surprised if there is still some
hassle involved.
jor...@pc-tesla ~ $ uname -r
2.6.26-2-686-bigmem
jor...@pc-tesla ~ $ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8118 6335 1783 0 386 3534
-/+ buffers/cache: 2415 5703
Swap: 4102 0 4101
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