On 01/10/09 06:51, Paul Cartwright wrote:
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
Yup. I did it myself at the beginning of last month. (Except I
rolled my own kernel.)
Note that, officially, you'll have to get rid of any binary video
driver and go with the corresponding xserver-xorg-video-* driver,
but you *can* run the 64-bit nvidia driver and 32-bit libs with a
little effort.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=112900
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