Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:31:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Sure, on the 80486 or early Pentia. But everything since then has > PAE. Perhaps, but as I understand it PAE is basically a segmentation hack (remember overlays in the real 386 days?) which adds a layer of indirection to memory acces

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-14 Thread kj
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/13/08 22:15, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: You may also not be able to access all your RAM, Sure, on the 80486 or early Pentia. But everything since then has PAE. The OS will be able to address all your memory, MySQL, for example won't. If you're going to run LAMP, and you

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread CaT
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:14:38AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> You may also not be able to access all your RAM, > >> Sure, on the 80486 or early Pentia. But everything since then has PAE. > > > > With a performance hit. :) > > You conveniently snipped the part where I agreed with the RAM > p

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/14/08 00:37, CaT wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:31:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/13/08 22:15, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:45:48AM -0700, Abraham Chaffin wrote: >>> wondering if it makes a difference if

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread CaT
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:31:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/13/08 22:15, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:45:48AM -0700, Abraham Chaffin wrote: > > > >> wondering if it makes a difference if I install the 64bit version of > >> the debian vs the i386 version of debian?

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 22:15, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:45:48AM -0700, Abraham Chaffin wrote: > >> wondering if it makes a difference if I install the 64bit version of >> the debian vs the i386 version of debian? If it's just running apa

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:45:48AM -0700, Abraham Chaffin wrote: > wondering if it makes a difference if I install the 64bit version of > the debian vs the i386 version of debian? If it's just running apache, You will pay a performance penalty if you run 32-bit on a 64-bit system. You may also no

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread Abraham Chaffin
Thanks for the reply- > I've got a 64 bit server that will be a standard debian LAMP and > > wondering if it makes a difference if I install the 64bit version of the > > debian vs the i386 version of debian? > > If it's just running apache, perl, and php what are the benefits and > > Where's the d

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 11:45, Abraham Chaffin wrote: > I've got a 64 bit server that will be a standard debian LAMP and > wondering if it makes a difference if I install the 64bit version of the > debian vs the i386 version of debian? > If it's just running apach