Mark Lanctot wrote: > But I'll level with ya, I'm not sure what speed advantage you'd gain. > You just end up using more memory. Apparently 64-bit is only useful > for programs designed to take advantage of 64-bit, and even then, only > for very computationally-intensive programs. I believe SS is more > database - I/O intensive.
On desktop/home servers, I have tried a couple of AMD64 distros on assorted 64bit machines, and always have gone back to the 32 bit release. The real advantage of 64 bit kernels is when you have a serious box. For work, I am configuring a quad AMD64 CPU, 12GB ram, terabyte disk server. With 32 bits, you can't address more than 4GB in theory, and typically more than 3GB is wasted. So to use 12GB of ram, I need 64 bit. I would not think it is really 'computationally intensive' as very little is CPU bound, Memory and IO are the real world constraints unless you care doing Folding-at-home. Pat -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
