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 -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
