On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 05:12 +0800, List Mail wrote: > My question is, do I suffer from a performance penalty if I use AMD64 > Linux on a low-spec computer? I'm thinking of installing Ubuntu AMD64 > 7.04 on a computer with a Sempron 3000+ (socket 754, true 1800 MHz), > 750 MB DDR1 RAM, and 120 GB PATA hard disk. Major processor-intensive > applications I'm using include OpenOffice.org, Firefox (without > flash), MEncoder (recording TV shows), bzip2 and p7zip (backup). I > also play OpenGL games like CrackAttack and Armagetron.
I'm not sure if the Sempron 3000+ is even 64-bit capable. > I'm not looking for a performance boost. All I want is performance > comparable to what I'm getting using my current 32-bit distro. There's not much benefit if you'd run it in 64-bit mode and have low memory as applications would need more memory (due to an inverted page table addressing scheme when you run in 64-bit mode), aside from you'd still need 32-bit applications to run some proprietary software. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================= Check out my twins! http://falconefamily.multiply.com ================================= _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
