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 1Sr1sU-0006A3-By for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:07:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B50BE0603; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com (mail-pb0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8645AE05D5 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:05:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbrr13 with SMTP id rr13so383075pbb.40 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:05:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=un+lBRku6lE+fLQ5KSYlNFOOvYw8stcJsH5V2uBqSQE=; b=jCQDe4SV/yWmkXpRmWu6bvh3+uziT8Tx7SIXR/XHtEcMAAe9Kb7dX+6632VkJcTHs1 RCsYPBMMtdOELnupggKULk7hY3z0yXOYbkEP5u3oQ//2Gn9o7BoTa2v+Ky3QQN5mOSfB 4keyQIbuKir0WcEQF/JCUe/5JYPVoeKaQen0QTaFSjgM9ENd72UHUuhq+pD2ZCZNQ4uP aCh5BSGutQBMsFUVy8ZXxyb2/IuVq1uRJlkzXcOLr+JgyHVHWCVfXZkCx9i4pCCP38Ie f2rPDkHPxJGGs4Zku38joRknaidAcz0dd3FYMXaK+U2RNyUHPLYYwEAgmdUXZP0L3dY3 g/IA== 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 Received: by 10.68.232.232 with SMTP id tr8mr3902423pbc.73.1342508739670; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.62.229 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.62.229 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:05:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:05:39 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b33cf6c89314b04c5012c0e X-Archives-Salt: adba6a62-3752-4b32-911e-32879046b37d X-Archives-Hash: 99c3f31e3671bfb2ef8bad581e425095 --047d7b33cf6c89314b04c5012c0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 There is no reason to use 32bit. Am 17.07.2012 04:28 schrieb "Nilesh Govindrajan" : > 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. > --047d7b33cf6c89314b04c5012c0e Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

There is no reason to use 32bit.

Am 17.07.2012 04:28 schrieb "Nilesh Govindr= ajan" <contact@nileshgr.com= >:

So the same old query again I guess.
What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit proce= ssor?

I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt = or =3D 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable with PAE if I'm not wrong. <= /p>

So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64b= it for me.

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