64 bit info
Karl F. Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 15:20:08 UTC 2010
top - 08:14:07 up 12:28, 3 users, load average: 0.43, 0.18, 0.11
Tasks: 145 total, 1 running, 144 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0
zombie
Cpu(s): 6.0%us, 3.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 90.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1796700k total, 1451832k used, 344868k free,
139252k buffers
Swap: 1959920k total, 0k used, 1959920k free,
757764k cached
Notice I have 2 GB of RAM and the 64bit 9.10 is using just
1.45 GB of the RAM. I wasted $92 on new fast RAM which I was
assured you need.
From these measurements it is clear that 64 bit runs fine
with just 2 GB of RAM. The people claiming you need 4GB are wrong.
73 Karl
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