Am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2016 18:22:53 UTC+2 schrieb David Baron:
> On Thursday 2016-05-12 11:45 -0400, Ted Mielczarek wrote:
> > requirement for x86-64 processors, and the overall performance should
> > generally be better (modulo memory usage, I'm not sure if we have an
> > exact comparison). Additionally 64-bit builds are much less likely to
> > encounter OOM crashes due to address space fragmentation since they have
> > a very large address space compared to the maximum 4GB available to the
> > 32-bit builds.
> 
> Might it be worth considering automatically updating users on
> machines with 6GB (roughly) or more of RAM, but leaving alone users
> with less RAM?

No!
FF crashes at ~2.5GB used ram!
Also AFAIK the mem can be used from the pagefile.sys... (even really slow!)
So there should be no min. system limit for a OOM crash!

> 
> -David
> 
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