The 64-bit System...
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Mar 11 01:40:35 UTC 2009
Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Brian Chadwick venit, vidit, dixit 10.03.2009 12:38:
>> to be fairer, how much faster is the processor as well? any new 64-bit
>> processor is faster than the top of the line 32 bit one of a few years
>> ago, mind you my Athlon Xp-3200+ is heaps for me
>>
>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is no doubt that this has sped up this computer manifold. After only
>>>> a few hours, this seems like an entirely new machine.
>>>>
>>> To be fair, the extra RAM probably also helped.
>>>
>>> Kevin Kofler
>
> I think he only compares (speedwise) the 64bit system with x+2GB to the
> same with just x, x probably being 1GB (I don't think it's lame with 2
> to start with). Memory consumption wise, he seems to compare 64 bit
> distro to 32 bit distro on the the same box. Firefox and Thunderbird
> consume quite some memory in their 64 bit incarnations (more than twice
> as much compared to 32 bit, which I would understand), for the "system"
they do? Strewth!
I've got three programs atm using more than 1 Gbyte virtual. They are X,
firefox and seamonkey.
I've just migrated off 32-bit, so I can't so easily compare, but I
reckon I had Mozilla using 700M and more on RHL 7.3, That seriously
creaked. I don't really think either firefox, Thunderbird or the system
as a whole uses twice as much RAM.
Except, maybe, if you also support 32-bit. I have no 32-bit libraries.
This system has 5 Gbytes, so I _might_ not noticed.
I have another, similar, system with 2 Gbytes RAM. It runs Fedora-64
well, better than my Pentium IV with 1 Gbyte ran RHEL5-clone.
> itself it's not that bad.
>
> Michael
>
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