Re: Debian AMD64

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Fri January 9 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Ron is right though.  Unless you have a specific application that is
> 100%-ing your CPU, you probably aren't going to experience a measurable
> speed-up when moving to 64-bits.  In fact, you might be better off using a
> 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userland since the kernel can save values in the
> extra registers for the inevitable return from userspace.

so, are you saying I could "pop in" a 64 bit kernel, via apti-get install.... 
and leave my debian Lenny installed base as I686 but change my kernel from:
 uname -a
Linux paulandcilla 2.6.26-1-686 
to something like:
 uname -a
Linux paulandcilla 2.6.26-1-amd64

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Paul Cartwright
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