From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 627FA1381F4 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:26:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 978F5E0752; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB4FE07F8 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:23:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so1916725bkw.40 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:23:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=QVViQpB2/T3JZr5qc1Gr8nnJA7sUOXpbSD/O+HEhkms=; b=y/bHHee2bzxnKX/+LV96fa54iBnInTZ+BzEkIiiM8QDgBEVGKRtfyX1aUAhlzjZDda Nkvi97UcwTxPs8FW7G+p7thjWTNqu4GEPwCct8bPbkqbFS4qSsBHd3Pzp8KRONE87Aow XQTZgDHpZYf9V0jfigvjAUbxzkDdyFKE98bi4VgXJZe0SWnOpYT3gYeStHqhuTXnXomF qaS6zCrYxxMm5C4YtOVpn5eZVTasqe+/Sc/esoQ3TE3lHvTpvhJVC0pn+8I43EnaKOUD yEL/AOzl4kvfyRQ/i1T1/W7o/Uz1KOyhq4bNjEWBqgTm6A9MChTPe5YHYfCp7dVKJxMu F/WA== Received: by 10.204.128.202 with SMTP id l10mr5090457bks.127.1344903809112; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:23:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p4FC60894.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.8.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g6sm442394bkg.2.2012.08.13.17.23.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:23:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Frank Steinmetzger Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Comparison between 32 bit and 64 bit Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 02:23:25 +0200 Message-ID: <12835042.jD4fYkY6qb@energy> User-Agent: KMail/4.9 (Linux/3.2.27; KDE/4.9.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20120813231820.GA2758@eisen.fritz.box> References: <20120813185523.GC30008@eisen.lan> <56063785.rcYNR2xctP@energy> <20120813231820.GA2758@eisen.fritz.box> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: b965074a-5dc9-4576-af23-3e80a68a1ffd X-Archives-Hash: cf31b0850af92a91224358e67c2f99cc 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 -- #163933