Please don't top post. Further replies inline. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Shrikant Khanduri < [email protected]> wrote:
> In 64 bit Ubuntu, there will be a problem when you have 512 MB or less RAM. > Because In Idle Condition it will consume ~400MB. > Disagree. I happily ran Ubuntu 64 bit from 7.10 onwards, and I never faced 400 Meg usage in idle condition. > 2 years Ago I was having 64bit AMD processor and 512 RAM, I had to switch > to 32 bit that time. > But now I have 2 GB RAM, and INTEL 64 Bit Processor, so now I am using 64 > bit Ubuntu 9.10. > You can switch to 64 bit if RAM is 1 GB or more. > Not a requirement. Of course, current systems hardly come with anything less that a Gig of RAM, still it is in no way necessary a prerequisite to run 64 bit. 64 bit can address terabytes of RAM, so there will be no 4GB limit with 64 > bit processor. > > >> how 32bit consumes more RAM? > I think you wanna ask about 64 bit RAM consumption. that is I guess due to > large size of variables, pointers and other such reasons, Not sure. > > Shrikant > <snip> > Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065
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