From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Comparison between 32 bit and 64 bit
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 02:23:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12835042.jD4fYkY6qb@energy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120813231820.GA2758@eisen.fritz.box>
Am Dienstag, 14. August 2012, 01:18:20 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:20:04AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > Am Montag, 13. August 2012, 20:55:23 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
> > > Hey there
> > >
> > > As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I switched from 32 to 64 bit after
> > > some convinction work done by the ML and a friend. In order to justify
> > > the switch for myself, I made some performance comparisons.
> > >
> > > So, in case anyone is interested, here are my results.
> > >
> > > The only thing I don't really like is of course the increased RAM usage.
> > > While the old installation took 400 MB of RAM after Login to KDE
> > > (Akonadi is a hog), it now takes 500. The memory meter now stands
> > > always at least at 50% (3 GB available). I will have to tune down
> > > multitasking a bit.
> > >
> > > [major snippage]
> >
> > so all in all you got performance improvements you had to spend several
> > hundred of dollars for just through recompiling. Should give you food for
> > thought.
>
> I don't understand that sentence. Where did I spend 100s of $$?
you didn't. You got the equivalent of a major cpu/mobo/ram upgrade in
performance improvements - for free.
>
> > Oh and the ram? Ram is cheap. Get yourseld 8gb. Costs as much as a good
> > lunch.
> Nah, I won't upgrade this laptop anymore. It's 6 years old, the heatpipe is
> worn out, so I can't go full-power anymore, the backlight is getting weaker
> and the keyboard is falling apart. I don't have too little RAM, I just
> don't have that much by today's standard. (It came shipped with 1 Gig
> BTW).
>
> I'm gonna build me a nice i5-based minitower once I can afford it. *dream*
>
> What a pity though -- you just don't get 1400x1050 laptops anymore these
> days (or any 4:3 laptops for that matter).
>
> > Or a couple of beers on friday night.
>
> I don't drink beer. ;-p
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-13 18:55 [gentoo-user] Comparison between 32 bit and 64 bit Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-13 21:44 ` Paul Hartman
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2012-08-14 0:23 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2012-08-14 0:39 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-14 0:57 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-08-14 14:49 ` Paul Hartman
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