[nzlug] 32bit vs 64bit speed/performance

[Steve Holdoway]

Let's hope you motherboard lets you put more than 3GB in it (:

I resent having to pull 1GB out of my machine *because* I'm running a 64bit OS.

http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm. The bit on "memory hole remapping" is the important one.

Steve

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:52:33 +1300
"Ian Beardslee" <itb at falcons.co.nz> wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Pittman <>
> To: NZLUG Mailing List <nzlug at linux.net.nz>
> 
> > Jack Pivac <> writes:
> > 
> > > What with a new Ubuntu round the corner I'm going to do a clean
> > > install and wondering 32bit or 64bit?
> > 
> > For a desktop?  Unless you plan to put more than 3GB[1] of memory in it
> > then you want a 32-bit Ubuntu on the system.
> 
> Which is the only reason I'll be moving from 32bit Fiesty to 64bit Gutsy
> ... I resent only being able to use 3GB of the 4 I have installed.
> 
> I am expecting 'fun and games' with VMWare, wine and proprietory plugins.
>  But if I can get VMware working properly and well, I'll have the rest of
> my RAM to setup some VMware machines for things that don't behave :-)
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
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