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 1SqyVN-0005oR-Qw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:31:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33728E067D; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f181.google.com (mail-qc0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A911E065A for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcpx40 with SMTP id x40so4032260qcp.40 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:29:36 -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=+nXKp1+SrW40jhsz17c5ewcpf4R68Z01Ig1WGagNgKY=; b=FTdiXwlKxwN/OImIwKJxd2+LztCWbiOYw/gtdqIvBW7qneJeJ6t5lfWlONZuU9DUki SQVvOyy3sosDuZJEGi4DH4EboYUQLi0vS0G+yuAFzfKBaDmZatOnDLG0AjzUbD+aO4YA MH8Xxb3KGLJW2u4GoFw7ysHMSFrFKqehwehEEi4rjYmWmEOvAMrR07HPP1vNP7DyhU0o xYxd5cCc35JCSEuc1cvLSLnF34qGv9rWIo7RGiVwVJbtvEj335N+GpwBYstQ8nAHE+II ZYsyPjmuSuQd/jg2Vp2ab+iLXAMlCikmPTqFkQaoElM5UgwfFsoINn9EhuS7q3pZF9x4 8eUQ== 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 10.224.181.206 with SMTP id bz14mr1679073qab.64.1342495775985; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.190.196 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:29:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:29:35 -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: 534a91f1-2450-41fe-8bd5-a41e7e012e44 X-Archives-Hash: e9769e382293e78d15c29c425d780d59 On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> 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... > > 64-bit WINE worked for me. Even for running 32-bit WoW. (Though I was > running a multilib profile. Uncertain if that had an impact.) > >> >> Why 64? ... Virtualization... >> >> Depends on what you want and/or need. > > IMO, it's worth the 'overhead' to run 64-bit, if only for the greater > number of GPRs and other architectural improvements. There's honestly > a lot of good stuff in x86-64 beyond the larger address space. The > increased address space also helps long-lived programs avoid address > space fragmentation. > > -- > :wq > Agreed. I only boot 64-bit here, but different than all you heavy-lifters my machines are 98% stable, 2% ~amd64. That said I do have problems not only with Flash on my machine with 2 Nvidia cards but also with OpenGL. However none of that on any other 64-bit machines. As for the win32 codec stuff I use Windows VMs to watch any stuff I want to watch, and a fairly trim Gentoo 32-bit VM so that I can run Linux apps to convert certain Windows format files, etc. Cheers, Mark