On 2009-10-16 13:41 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > 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.
Note that this combination will not work with virtualbox (#456391¹), so that it becomes necessary to set up an amd64 chroot for virtualbox. Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456391 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
