64 bit info

[Johnneylee Rollins]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Karl, addressing and using are separate things.
64-bit can see and address 4gigs or more.
It's up to you as a user to make use of your ram.
Like say, better multitasking, assuming your proc is fast enough.

~SpaceGhost

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