On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 23:10, Adam Thornton wrote: > What benefit is there to running 64-bit in a machine smaller than 2GB?
I know little about applications, but * a commercial product may be available only in 64-bit using the 64-bit glibc etc because the vendor says it is too much work to do both and they want to be able to address the big ones too * the application may want to have the bigger process address space to lay out the data all over the place * some of the things in Linux also double in capacity when you go to 64-bit and some apps may want that * support is separate for 32-bit and 64-bit, so if you need some 64-bit machines you may be forced to run all of them like that Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
