On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote: > >> I don't know of a good reason for a normal user to run the 64bit kernel. > > Also, I am not entirely a "normal" user.
There are two reasons I'm aware of to run the 64bit kernel: - You're doing driver development (so you want to test the 64bit version of your driver with the 64bit kernel) - You're running a server and need the extra room you get with the 64bit kernel to tune things (but even if you think you're in this category, you probably aren't ;-) ) > I do > need to run a 64-bit JVM very occasionally because we sometimes deal > with huge datasets. This implies that I simply run a 64-bit JVM all > the time. which runs fine on the 32bit kernel... -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
