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 1Sqxvm-0006w3-NP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:54:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB7EAE0329; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:54:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-f53.google.com (mail-qa0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A09E0329 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qaas11 with SMTP id s11so5251qaa.19 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:52:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=x7+XGx1h4twDNnx28LJyCcX4ZKOASNRr0XnJyrOPFy4=; b=rAxpOdL53fPWouDgmIoz2yEBzWFkxZ/FnA9TQ4wSbK5b/cICQPi/3/j7l+xXOk0r5x BKLC7ccLgB2U3KSF2LqGFLH2DbDfc35qxE05Wv2t52n5WV/lyoz1mgcqXR/1Dc5E7HJM ls9y26hflzqMAnN0J8HJJ4LoOI+Gx38HspQ3C+3tLabw43Tq0vicb7nSm6k5Rb1avaTp J4MxJ6oMpIxhB5me/zQBGBTnJ3+RNjXdJKLGdT0aKUS0eIt1CQ3qZJ8zMYXBhI/ru/ck SajvLfPeI5oFEMM86eHKW57zL+V577e905XN4xxPUs3+9lYEVU6qeUEmYreq4VVzuhIB 7Xwg== 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 10.224.202.67 with SMTP id fd3mr1669390qab.26.1342493574791; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:52:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.190.196 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:52:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:52:54 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: b88a23cb-a6fe-469c-ab0f-c6ffebadd3f9 X-Archives-Hash: 49a828756b56ee5b15bd04a3bad7e84b 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