-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU > It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB) > > Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going back to 32-bit > with bigmem kernel. The questions are: > > Does running 64-bit debian will boost the performance compared to 32-bit on > my machine? > > Will it hinder (using bigmem kernel) my work which mostly related to > virtualization using virtualbox? > > Any other pros and cons?
I would go for a 32 bit Debian system with a 64-bit kernel. (I have sometimes problems with certain `flashy' web sites or digitally restricted pdfs on my amd64 system). This way you are running a 64-bit system with a 32-bit userland. Cheers, Johannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrYW/EACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXOhQCcCC/zg+SmLhHBmwfDEEFplB6J MiYAn1ogAhsn1vekGhP218M8bo6zlG81 =yaQm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
