64 bit info

[J]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 14:59, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>        Yes and my computer was doing little since top was a major
> CPU user...but I was surprised to see it was happy with the
> old 2 GB RAM.
>
>        I will be getting 4 GB more RAM in a few days. It is 2 sticks
> of 2GB each. So I will experiment with this 9.10 64bit and see
> if I can determine what improves.

FWIW, many 32 bit kernels these days come with PAE enabled that will
allow a 32 bit system to address up to 16GB (maybe up to 32) but IIRC
they are still limited by a 3.6GB page size.

Good luck with your extra ram.  I really need to get a system above
2GB at home.  I'm spoiled by the 512GB systems I test on at work :-)

73 de Jeff
W4KDH

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