On 8/10/09, Patrick Shirkey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/10/2009 05:14 PM, Jens M Andreasen wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:22 +1000, Patrick Shirkey wrote: >> >> >>> "PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables larger >>> swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It has the cost of more >>> pagetable lookup overhead, and also consumes more pagetable space per >>> process." >>> >>> That suggests to me a similar situation to a win modem or auto >>> resampling. >>> >>> >> >> Why? The sentences above do not specify what is compared and only >> handwavingly suggests a cost of "more" ... Mind you, 64bit pointers >> crawling all over the place ain't free either. >> >> > > Simply because they don't specify the real world cost of using the method. > > >>> - Should this be a recommended method coming from LAD? >>> >>> >> >> Rather than suggesting something that is defunkt by default, yes. >> >> > > I Absolutely agree. I will add that as it's coming from LAD it should > ideally be the most efficient and future proof option with fallback for > situations where it is not possible to implement the complete > recommendation. > > I consider this approach part of the fallback. > > >>> BTW, it would be interesting to get some real world feedback from >>> anyone who has this enabled already on a 32 bit platform. >>> >>> >> >> This would most likely be enabled by default for anybody who has >> installed a 32bit distro on a machine with 8GB memory. >> >> >> > > Hmmm, I wonder how many people are in that situation? > > IIUC the only way to get 8GB or RAM onto a normal mobo is with a quad > core 64 bit system. Are you suggesting that there are a lot of people > who have one of these beasts who are running 32 bit OS on it? > > I know I'm not. > > Just out of interest I wonder if Fons would be willing to run 32 bit on > the new system he is looking at purchasing? > > Can we get a show of hands? Is anyone running 32 bit with 8Gb of memory? > How about 64 bit with the same specs? > >
I'm running 64 bit, quad core with 8 gb of ram. Systems like this cost USD600 here now. :) I play a quite a few games as well as doing recording with it ;) Loki _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
