some questions about 32 bit / 64 bit

2009-04-03 Thread Harald Servat
Hello everybody, I have a laptop with a Centrino 2 Duo processor with 4GB of RAM and a dual VGA (one integrated in the mobo and an ATI Radeon). Now it uses the ATI Radeon, but if I set it to use the integrated VGA, the total free RAM drops to 3.X GB. I understand that this is due to sharing

Re: some questions about 32 bit / 64 bit

2009-04-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Harald Servat wrote: My first issue is, I'm currently working with Linux and I'm planning to switch to FreeBSD 7.1, but I don't know if switch to 32 or 64 bit (i.e., i386 or amd64). If I switch to the 32 bit version, which is the memory limit On a server, switch to 64 bit. On a desktop

Re: some questions about 32 bit / 64 bit

2009-04-03 Thread Harald Servat
Hi again, 2009/4/3 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org Harald Servat wrote: My first issue is, I'm currently working with Linux and I'm planning to switch to FreeBSD 7.1, but I don't know if switch to 32 or 64 bit (i.e., i386 or amd64). If I switch to the 32 bit version, which is the memory

Re: some questions about 32 bit / 64 bit

2009-04-03 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:27:53 +0200 Harald Servat redcr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, 2009/4/3 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org Harald Servat wrote: My first issue is, I'm currently working with Linux and I'm planning to switch to FreeBSD 7.1, but I don't know if switch to 32 or 64

Re: some questions about 32 bit / 64 bit

2009-04-03 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:45 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Harald Servat wrote: My first issue is, I'm currently working with Linux and I'm planning to switch to FreeBSD 7.1, but I don't know if switch to 32 or 64 bit (i.e., i386 or amd64). If I switch to the 32 bit version, which is the

Re: some questions about 32 bit / 64 bit

2009-04-03 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:07:05PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:45 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Harald Servat wrote: My first issue is, I'm currently working with Linux and I'm planning to switch to FreeBSD 7.1, but I don't know if switch to 32 or 64 bit (i.e.,