From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FItfY-0008CU-6O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:29:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2DKHqw3025079; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:17:52 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2DKANAs029025 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:10:23 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B49D1F4C17 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:10:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463C41F4C11 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:10:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.6) with ESMTP id 11852522 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:10:22 +0100 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:10:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <00ab01c64656$6c404180$6400a8c0@kaleb> <4415BA82.8050507@keeliegirl.dyndns.org> <200603131328.35266.bss03@volumehost.net> In-Reply-To: <200603131328.35266.bss03@volumehost.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603132110.22738.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 9620ace1-dff7-435e-98e4-8b114c1547e9 X-Archives-Hash: 066b591b5326a27775cb67a224d5a533 On Monday 13 March 2006 20:28, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 13 March 2006 12:31, Jim wrote about > > 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > > Did you do AMD64 for gentoo or just x86? I just finished getting > > everything compiled and setup where I like it. I won't mind doing it > > again if running gentoo in 64-bit on an AMD64 would be a noticeable > > difference from running 32-bit on an AMD64. > > My recommendations are: > <1G RAM : 32-bit kernel and userland > <4G RAM : 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userland > else : 64-bit kernel and 64-bit (multilib) userland > with amd64 on s939 you are buyiong ram in pairs, to use dual channel mode. So you'll have 1GB, 2GB, 4GB. And with 1GB you are loosing ~160mb when using 32bit. Plus, you can't use the additional registers of the cpu in 32bit mode - so why using it at all? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list