On Wednesday 21 May 2008 02:47:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
[snip]
> If you have references for the 'slowness and other issues' or 'hardware
> support issues' I'd love to see them. I've not found any quantitative
> analysis of i386+PAE vs. x86_64/amd64 performance. I have to assume that
> while there is necessarily some some slowdown in rewriting memory addresses
> to access +3GB RAM, it's not so significant that it causes the measured
> load average to go up 400%.
[snip]
It is significant specially doing **exactly** what you are doing

64: a large footy field
32: a small room with lots of drawers, You can only open 1 draw at a time:

usual big mem scene: open a drawer and do lots of work, open another ...

ltsp: open a drawer, do a little work, close the drawer, open another 
drawer ...

The more work you do, as opposed to doing hard work, the more you need 64.

In your case while you are 'opening the drawer' and 'closing the drawer' the 
work is piling  up (Load Avg up). Open and close are non trivial so if you do 
it too often ... and you have 8 CPUs all waiting in line for their own 
drawer ...

James



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