On 07/19/2010 09:44 AM, Siddharth Ravikumar wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:If you want to use more than 3GB ram efficiently, or get the most out of your system, use 64bit. For a bit less hassles, use 32bit.I am actually quiet happy with 32bit , but it looks like the future is going to be 64bit. So if I build my comp this year , I will be using it for the next 3 - 4 years or so . I am under a confusion whether to go for 32bit or 64bit.
Note that the i386 arch has 64-bit kernels. You get a larger per-process memory space and more efficient use of .GT. 4GB RAM.
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