On 2016-09-20, Jeff Ross <jr...@openvistas.net> wrote: > Subject: i386 or amd64?
If the hardware supports it, run amd64. > If I have 8GB, I for sure want to use it all. You will need amd64 for that. But even if you have less memory, the larger address space is beneficial. Also, AES-NI support is only implemented for amd64. And some crypto algorithms are just faster on 64 bits. > amd64 has this caveat: "(Some Intel > processors lack support for important PAE NX bit, which means those > machines will run without any W^X support -- it is thus safer to run > those machines in i386 mode)." That is true but very misleading. It concerns only some rare early CPUs. The only ones I can find in Wikipedia's lists of Intel CPUs are the "Nocona" Xeons from 2004. I have now removed that caveat from the page. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
