Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
Up to last week, I had Fedora running in subsequent versions 2 or so to
10 on my old Pentium 4 system.
Now I have a rather recent new desktop computer with much of the latest
and greatest hardware: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 with 4 GB RAM, harddrive
with lots of Gagabytes and so on.
Thinking about changing to 64 bits architecture (I have the i386
installation dvd, but not yet the i86_64 one), I was astonished how
little I found on pros and cons. So what would you advise?
1. Changing to 64 bits is a must for you.
2. You will benefit from it.
3. Keep your hands off, stay with 64 bits.
4. ...
I should mention that I want to use virtualization (KVM, VMware Server),
and that the processor has Intel's hardware vitualization capabilities.
Thanks for any pointers.
Klaus
Something to note, I don't know why but the 64-bit versions of Firefox
and Thunderbird use a lot more memory than the 32-bit versions, I was
originally running a 32-bit f9 with 3GB ram w/2GB swap, and almost
never got into swap, after switching to 10 64-bit, I had to add 2GB
more of swap and was getting deep into the 4GB of swap, I uninstalled
64-bit firefox/openoffice and thunderbird and put in the 32-bit
version and the memory usage went down quite a bit. The memory usage
was a at least 50% more.
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