Re: Debian AMD64

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/10/09 06:51, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 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

Yup.  I did it myself at the beginning of last month.  (Except I 
rolled my own kernel.)

Note that, officially, you'll have to get rid of any binary video 
driver and go with the corresponding xserver-xorg-video-* driver, 
but you *can* run the 64-bit nvidia driver and 32-bit libs with a 
little effort.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=112900

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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