Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit performance

[Shane Fagan]

IMO it depends on what your spec is. I have 4GB of ram and I need to
address a lot more hard drive space so 64bit is needed for me. There
shouldnt be too much difference in terms of performance. Like I have a
single core 2ghz processor and my cpu load doesnt go far above 30% in
normal use (watching videos etc). The one thing that id love to get
feedback on is moving large files, moving large files on my computer
maxes out the cpu. Does anyone else get that?

Shane

On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 20:16 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Sunday 13 December 2009 8:00:10 pm Shane Fagan wrote:
> > Good question,
> > The problem with adobe flash is that its native 32bit being used in a
> > 64bit browser. This isnt ideal and you get a lot of rendering issues and
> > speed issues because of it. This will be solved by a native 64bit flash
> > which is coming soonish. We dont have any benchmarks but it is a known
> > issue. Its a problem that we cant fix because adobe flash is closed
> > source.
> 
> Aside from the Flash thing though...my system did feel all around snappier 
> when I switched from 64 to 32 bit a few weeks ago.  And my 32bit system with 
> 1GiB RAM doesn't swap anywhere near as much as my 64bit system with 2GiB did 
> (remedied by upgrading to 4GiB), even with the same workload.
> 
> -- 
> Mackenzie Morgan
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