From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1Sqyc6-00075b-Bo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:38:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79559E07B5; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out5.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out5.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.221]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69EB9E063F for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:36:36 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EAITcBFB8ljDm/2dsb2JhbABFhWqzbYEHgiABAQUjZgsNBQYCAiYCAkkOGYgMqVeTC4EgjUmCCoESA4hJkkgiig6CbA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,598,1336320000"; d="scan'208";a="15196975" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.150.48.230]) by icp-osb-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 17 Jul 2012 11:36:34 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BD8228575 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:36:34 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SGCHm-ZNino0 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:36:29 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.48.1] (troll [192.168.48.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id C485621AC34 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:36:29 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <1342496187.15312.7.camel@troll> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit From: Bill Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:36:27 +0800 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 X-Archives-Salt: 29f09b62-7b5c-4c28-ac89-ff1a95f46591 X-Archives-Hash: 5c75f9fa07271cbf9b7b4b4ed96745f1 On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 19:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/16/12, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > So the same old query again I guess. > > What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit > > processor? > > > > I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or > > = 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable with PAE if I'm not wrong. > > > > So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64bit > > for me. > > > > Why 32? ... Flash, win32 codecs, probably Wine but not sure as it has > been years... > > Why 64? ... Virtualization... > > Depends on what you want and/or need. > > HTH, > Mark > Virtualisation ? I am running qemu (windows, gentoo), vbox (windows, gentoo, fedora) and gxemul (ultrix) all 32 bit guests on 32 bit systems on either 32 or 64 bit hardware running gentoo - can you confirm you need 64bit for 64bit guests as I will be moving that way eventually? That being said, I think for future proofing 64bit is the way to go, I can see a time when 32bit is going to get deprecated. Billk