[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 32 bit or 64 bit?

[Easwar Hariharan]

Please don't top post. Further replies inline.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Shrikant Khanduri <
shrikant.khanduri at gmail.com> 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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