On 01/15/2013 05:40 PM, Matt McKenzie wrote: > > Maybe you have this in another post, but can you tell us exactly what model > CPU you have? > Output of /proc/cpuinfo would help also.
/proc$ cat cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 2800.052 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr bogomips : 5600.10 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 128 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 2800.052 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr bogomips : 5599.75 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 128 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: > Basically if your system is 64bit you would want to use the 64bit version, > but there could be gotchas if you have never used 64bit before. > If your system has 4GB or less of RAM the benefits of using the 64bit > version aren't as apparent (32bit OS can only use 4GB without modification). Alas, it has only 3GB right now. I'll probably upgrade it some day. > More or less any Intel CPU post Core 2 Duo (Conroe) era is 64bit. > > Most distros these days will have an x86 (32bit) and a 64bit version, the > second option from Ubuntu is for 64bit CPUs, either AMD or Intel. Thanks for the confirmation. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
