Alvaro Figueroa <fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr> wrote: > > > Would be nice to have a 64-bit userland on a 64-bitter though. > > Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood from a thread in the > lkml a while ago, that a 64 bit userland would be slower, and that it > was only worthy if you would have a very large DB that would need to > user *very* large adresses. I'm curious about this.. Do you have a link to that discussion in some LKML archive somewhere? I've heard this before, but I'd like to know why it's the case.. -- Mike Hicks [mailto:mhicks@csom.umn.edu] Unix Support Assistant | Carlson School of Management Office: 1-160 Phone: 6-7909 | University of Minnesota
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