Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Wed 05 Jul 2017 at 11:34:20 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2017 07:58:26 Matthew Crews wrote: > > > >Now that I know that I'm 64 bit capable. Would I see any benefit in > > >switching? > > > > I would switch to AMD64 if you are comfortable with reinstalling > > Debian. You

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 July 2017 07:58:26 Matthew Crews wrote: > >Now that I know that I'm 64 bit capable. Would I see any benefit in > >switching? > > I would switch to AMD64 if you are comfortable with reinstalling > Debian. You will see a performance increase, even on a minimally > spec'd system. (I'm

RE: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-05 Thread Matthew Crews
>Now that I know that I'm 64 bit capable. Would I see any benefit in >switching? I would switch to AMD64 if you are comfortable with reinstalling Debian. You will see a performance increase, even on a minimally spec'd system. (I'm not sure its possible to convert a live install from 32-bit to 64-b

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-05 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2017-07-05 06:26 (UTC-0500): > Now that I know that I'm 64 bit capable. Would I see any benefit in > switching? > [I don't have any interest in grapic intensive apps. I don't do anything > that my old WinXP machine didn't handle OK.] Is more than 3G RAM is installed?

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/04/2017 02:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-07-04 20:19 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: On 04-07-17, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-07-04 17:33 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: Several. To see your cpu, type lscpu. Architecture is first in output. That's not correct, or at least not useful. The a

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/04/2017 01:20 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Curt composed on 2017-07-04 17:53 (UTC): Richard Owlett wrote: Thank you. I've i686 processors on both machines within reach [as I suspected] I'll have to spend some time on man page for inxi to fully appreciate it. But i686 is 32 bit isn't it?

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-07-04 20:19 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 04-07-17, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2017-07-04 17:33 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: >> > >> > Several. To see your cpu, type lscpu. Architecture is first in output. >> >> That's not correct, or at least not useful. The architecture is what >> uname(2

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-07-04 18:39 +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-07-04, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> Several. To see your cpu, type lscpu. Architecture is first in output. >> >> That's not correct, or at least not useful. The architecture is what >> uname(2) reports, and if the system is currently running a 32-b

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-04 Thread Curt
On 2017-07-04, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> Several. To see your cpu, type lscpu. Architecture is first in output. > > That's not correct, or at least not useful. The architecture is what > uname(2) reports, and if the system is currently running a 32-bit > kernel, it will be "i686" no matter if the

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-04 Thread Felix Miata
Curt composed on 2017-07-04 17:53 (UTC): > Richard Owlett wrote: >> Thank you. I've i686 processors on both machines within reach ]as I >> suspected] >> I'll have to spend some time on man page for inxi to fully appreciate it. > But i686 is 32 bit isn't it? Some are 32, others are 64. 'cat /pr

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-04 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 04-07-17, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2017-07-04 17:33 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > > On 04-07-17, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I have been running Debian i386 since Squeeze. At that time it was required > >> as I was considering supporting some donated 32 bit machines at church. I > >> don't recal

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-07-04 17:33 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 04-07-17, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I have been running Debian i386 since Squeeze. At that time it was required >> as I was considering supporting some donated 32 bit machines at church. I >> don't recall what processor was in my personal machine a

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-04 Thread Curt
On 2017-07-04, Richard Owlett wrote: >> informations. >> > > Thank you. I've i686 processors on both machines within reach ]as I > suspected] > I'll have to spend some time on man page for inxi to fully appreciate it. But i686 is 32 bit isn't it? > I'm not aware of anything I routinely use that

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/04/2017 10:33 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: On 04-07-17, Richard Owlett wrote: I have been running Debian i386 since Squeeze. At that time it was required as I was considering supporting some donated 32 bit machines at church. I don't recall what processor was in my personal machine at that time.

Re: Switching from Debian i386 to AMD64

2017-07-04 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 04-07-17, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have been running Debian i386 since Squeeze. At that time it was required > as I was considering supporting some donated 32 bit machines at church. I > don't recall what processor was in my personal machine at that time. I've > never had cause to investigate t