64-bit - Not recommended for daily desktop usage

[Karl Larsen]

On 06/10/2010 12:42 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> The benefit of 64-bit is that you can address more RAM.
>
> 32-bits can only address 4GB of RAM.  If you have less than 4GB then
> there is no benefit, in fact I think executables are ~slightly~ larger
> in 64-bit, so you lose some capacity.  If you have more than 4GB then
> you need the 64-bit version to get to all your memory.  If you have
> exactly 4GB then I think 32-bit Linux keeps you from using some of your
> RAM, but I don't know what the loss is these days on an x86 machine.
>
>
> -kb
>
>
>    
     Here is from top on my 64 bit Desktop:

Mem:   5867892k total,  1628736k used,  4239156k free,   252888k buffers
Swap:  1959920k total,        0k used,  1959920k free,   701448k cached

I have 6 million bytes of RAM installed. Works great!

73 Karl


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