Re: Switching to amd64 - is it worth it?
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On 01/22/07 09:19, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 08:42 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> For a home user, doing "home things" and only probably 1GB or less
>> of RAM, and the aforementioned hassles running Flash (and acroread),
>> I vote: stay with i386.
>>
>> OTOH, if this were your *workstation*, and you were doing lots of
>> compiling, or running statistical analyses, etc, etc, etc, then go
>> with amd64.
>>
>> It goes without saying that you should go amd64 on your servers.
>
> Hmm, I say that the workload and specific tasks determine 32-bit or
> 64-bit. Servers in general can be either.
>
> I have an HP Proliant DL145 G2 with an Opteron. I am running a -k7
> kernel on this machine. IOW 32-Bit Debian Sid, not 64-Bit. I see many
> applications having bit-alignment errors in 64-bit environments. This
Bit alignment??? Never heard of it.
Or byte alignment? That would be a compiler bug.
> then increases problems in unexpected areas. When I run into a
> requirement, I'll switch.
>
> But, there many reasons to go with 64-bit, massive memory requirements,
> tremendous processing, tons of IO... in general extreme requirements,
> require 64-bit environments at the moment.
Even apps not needing extreme requirements benefit from the extra
registers in 64 bit mode.
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