Going from i386 AMD 64 Dual Core

Thilo Six T.Six at gmx.de
Mon Apr 9 14:47:49 UTC 2007


Ben Edwards wrote the following on 09.04.2007 16:12:

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> If I stick to 32bit will both cores be used, are there performance
> benefits or just memory addressing etc of 64bit.

here i am using the i386 version on dual amd64 and it is damn fast (compared
to my old machine)

> Thing is I want to use things like w32codecs and they do not seem to
> be available for 64bit.
>
> When I do top I was expecting to c a line for each CPU in the summary
> section.  Is there a way of monitoring each CPU separately?

when in top hit "1" then shift+w and it will stay this way

> Regards,
> Ben


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