In<[🔎] 4B832DBB.5050403@allums.com>, Mark Allums wrote:
On 2/22/2010 6:19 PM, Johan Kullstam wrote:
Mark Allums<mark@allums.com> writes:
AMD64 is the designation for the 64-bit chip architecture, not the
actual chip manufacturer. AMD devised it, and Intel did the sensible
thing and copied it when they expanded their x86 architecture to
64-bit; it was a very good design.
The 32 bit i386 is also viable.
That's true (but it's losing ground fast). Most people install 4 MB or
more these days, and want it all.
They can still use it all, just not all in a single process by using the i386
userland with the (Debian-provided) amd64 kernel.
Unless you are doing A/V work (Rendering, large image editing, large sound
file editing, or video editing), a single process taking 2+ GiB of memory is
probably indicative of a problem.