Re: 32-bit with bigmem or 64-bit debian, which is better?
On 2009-10-16 13:41 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
>> My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU
>> It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB)
>>
>> Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going back to 32-bit
>> with bigmem kernel. The questions are:
>>
>> Does running 64-bit debian will boost the performance compared to 32-bit on
>> my machine?
>>
>> Will it hinder (using bigmem kernel) my work which mostly related to
>> virtualization using virtualbox?
>>
>> Any other pros and cons?
>
> I would go for a 32 bit Debian system with a 64-bit kernel. (I have
> sometimes problems with certain `flashy' web sites or digitally
> restricted pdfs on my amd64 system).
>
> This way you are running a 64-bit system with a 32-bit userland.
Note that this combination will not work with virtualbox (#456391¹), so
that it becomes necessary to set up an amd64 chroot for virtualbox.
Sven
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456391
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