Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-03-01 Thread David Baron
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Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-03-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Bob Proulx a écrit : Sharon Kimble wrote: This setup is currently running a 3.16.0-4-686-pae kernel. Is it a good idea to convert to a 64bit kernel, specifically 3.16.0-4-amd64? How much memory do you have in your system? If the answer is 4G or less then there is no advantage. Stay with

Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-03-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Pascal Hambourg wrote: Bob Proulx a écrit : A 64-bit kernel won't have much advantage for a 32-bit userspace. Quote for the kernel source : Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems. However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4 Gigabytes

Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-02-28 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday 28 February 2015 20:57:04 Sharon Kimble wrote: I installed this jessie setup on 10/02/14 from an old wheezy net-install disc dated 28/05/13! I'm in the process of downloading a jessie net-install for future installation. This setup is currently running a 3.16.0-4-686-pae kernel.

Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-02-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
My new toshiba is a 64 bit amd system. It has 6G of memory and 750G hard drive. Is the 64 bit system better or should I install the 32 bit. I am using weezy. Moe On 02/28/2015 05:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Sharon Kimble wrote: This setup is currently running a 3.16.0-4-686-pae kernel. Is it

Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-02-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
I installed this jessie setup on 10/02/14 from an old wheezy net-install disc dated 28/05/13! I'm in the process of downloading a jessie net-install for future installation. This setup is currently running a 3.16.0-4-686-pae kernel. Is it a good idea to convert to a 64bit kernel, specifically

Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-02-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
Sorry, I meant that I installed this jessie setup on 10/02/15! Got the year wrong! Ooops! Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, fluxbox 1.3.6, emacs 24.4.1.0 signature.asc

Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Linux-Fan wrote: Maureen L Thomas wrote: My new toshiba is a 64 bit amd system. It has 6G of memory and 750G hard drive. Is the 64 bit system better or should I install the 32 bit. I am using weezy. I recommend you to install the 64 bit version so that a single process is able to

Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Sharon Kimble wrote: This setup is currently running a 3.16.0-4-686-pae kernel. Is it a good idea to convert to a 64bit kernel, specifically 3.16.0-4-amd64? How much memory do you have in your system? If the answer is 4G or less then there is no advantage. Stay with the 32-bit kernel. If

Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-02-28 Thread Linux-Fan
On 02/28/2015 11:25 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: My new toshiba is a 64 bit amd system. It has 6G of memory and 750G hard drive. Is the 64 bit system better or should I install the 32 bit. I am using weezy. Moe I recommend you to install the 64 bit version so that a single process is able

Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-02-28 Thread Marc Auslander
I did exactly that several years ago with no problem. I installed an amd64 kernel at which point grub knew about both. Changed default boot to the new kernel and ran for a while. Once all was well I uninstalled the pae kernel. I did it mostly because I expect that amd64 is the dominant kernel

Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-02-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Thank you I will use the 64 bit one. Thanks again. Moe On 02/28/2015 05:51 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Linux-Fan wrote: Maureen L Thomas wrote: My new toshiba is a 64 bit amd system. It has 6G of memory and 750G hard drive. Is the 64 bit system better or should I install the 32 bit. I am using

Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

2015-02-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: Sharon Kimble wrote: This setup is currently running a 3.16.0-4-686-pae kernel. Is it a good idea to convert to a 64bit kernel, specifically 3.16.0-4-amd64? How much memory do you have in your system? 4G actual, 3.84g useable. If the answer is 4G or