Maybe this will help you: http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html
> Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: >> > Three months ago I changed my dual-P2/350 to an Athlon K7/900. >> > apperently this was a bad move since I can see absolutely no >> improvement >> > in speed (probably since I cut the L2 cache in half). >> >> That's weird. I have a feeling I read exactly this expectation from >> you some time ago (a quick google search ... Aha: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00416html> > > Well, At the time I had less cash floating around to do this switch and > decided to postpone this a bit, and do an empirical test with a K7 board > I had available. the test showed my original guess was correct then :) > L2 cache amount counts more than megahertz. > > >> Although I must say "no improvement" is a bit weird. Do you mean "in >> general, day-to-day, non-timed work", or in specific CPU-intensive >> things you do? > > The first. This machine is my mail server at home, Web browser, mutt, CD > burner and in the rare occasion also an MP3 player. I am thinking the > extra CPU muscle will allow for smoother Firefox experiance, DVD playing > and hopefully mastering the translation of old videotapes, 8mm and > Super8 projector films to the realm of the DVD or at least DIVX, and > just maybe other DVR features as well. > >> Contrary to Itanium, K8 runs 32bit code very fast. I am not even sure >> that "normal" (with normal being quite hard to define) apps will run >> faster as 64bit. As was shown in some article, some will surely run >> *slower*. In short, the main use is if you need more than 4GB RAM. >> Otherwise simply use 32bit versions and wait for things to mature. >> Good luck, and tell us about your experience, > > I think that is indeed what I will do... wait for things to mature then, > and not change the kernel too fast (or not much more than the kernel > anyway). My main complaints today are rather silly and probably have to > do more with bus speed and bad mozilla optimizations. I must admit that > at work I had a dual-boot windows+debian on the same T23 laptop and with > all the MS annoyances, sailing the web on same-version firefox, is MUCH > smoother and more stable in winXP than in Debian Sid (remember, same > hardware as well). > > on to my next project now... figure out why kernel 2.6.9 killed cdrecord > and how to fix it. sayonara for now. > > Shabat Shalom, > Ira. > > -- > All-American hero > Ira Abramov > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
