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Re: Moving from a "686-pae" kernel to "amd64"?



Linux-Fan wrote:
> Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> > My new toshiba is a 64 bit amd system.  It has 6G of memory and 750G
> > hard drive.  Is the 64 bit system better or should I install the 32
> > bit.  I am using weezy.
> 
> I recommend you to install the 64 bit version so that a single process
> is able to address more than two GiB of RAM (can be useful with data
> compression like 7z and other software which can make use a lot of RAM).

Agreed.  6G and a pristine new system install then I would install an
amd64 64-bit system.

Actually even with 4G I usually install 64-bit anyway just for
consistency with the new direction everything is moving.  But as you
can see I do still have 32-bit systems and I am not converting them to
64-bit as a conversion.

Bob

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