Re: Opinion question (Core2 Duo)
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:17:26PM -0400, Zaq Rizer wrote:
> I have an Intel Core2 Duo arriving in the mail in a couple of days, and
> I read online that these processors can run in either 32bit or 64bit
> mode (just like Athlons can).
>
> Thing is, the 32bit chroot and ia32-compatibility libraries, are, imo, a
> total mess and a real pain in the rear to deal with on a daily basis.
What problems do you have? Are you using schroot?
>
> I'm looking for people's opinions on whether I should stick with
> debian-amd64, or do a reinstall of debian from the main branch (32bit)?
>
> What, truly, are the real performance differences? Simply support for
> 4+G of ram, or something else?
I run amd64 on my Athlon. It only has 1GB ram now, but the MB can take
8 GB.
The only thing I need i386 is for the odd time when I need flash.
Actually, to save download time (given the rate that iceweasel gets
updated) I only have it installed in the i386 chroot. For normal
browsing, I use amd64 Konqueror however there are two websites that I go
to that need iceweasel.
Everything else is amd64. I watch DVDs and listen to radio (poor
quality over a normal phone dial-up) with amd64 vlc.
The chroot didn't take much to set up, however, I found the
documentation a little fragmented and not up-to-date. However, once
done, I have an icon on my icewm or xfce panel that runs
$ schroot -pc etch-ia32 iceweasel.
Whenever I run aptitude on the amd64 to update/upgrade Etch, I follow it
with
# schroot -pc etch-ia32 aptitude
The only downside is the 500-ish MB that the chroot takes.
I also know, that should I move up to Lenny, that the problem is fixed
and I won't need the chroot.
As for performance, I can only get my Athlon64 3800+ to budge off of 98%
idle for more than a second with some difficulty, such as getting
DigiKam to resize a thumbnail to 1024x768. Takes 20 seconds at 100%.
And that's with Konquerer downloading another graphics page, a DVD
playing, and vi running.
I hope this helps.
Doug.
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