On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 02:37:49PM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote:
>
> In my investigation I too saw the 4GB/4GB split mentioned but with something
> else that caused me to disregard it--it had been pulled or something.
>
> I have 4GB in my "everyday" Conroes, though the refurb box I dedicate to W10
> so's it can run TurboTax is only 2GB, IIRC. IMO, running a 64-bit OS is a
> plus only if it has more than 4GB to play with.
4GB just about still works ok, although it is getting tight for
compiling modern browsers.
At one time I was thinking about trying X32 (full-width kernel, all
the extra registers, but 32-bit pointers). That was for a low-end
AMD with, ISTR, 1GB RAM (worked great in the early days of x86_64,
but the software got bigger). But that old machines died and 4/8GB
is now a normal size for RAM on a desktop machine, so I didn't
bother. And LFS doesn't support it.
If anybody wants to try that, many packages needed patching - again,
gentoo is probably the primary place to look. But X32 seems to have
missed the opportunity to become popular.
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