On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:17:26PM -0400, Zaq Rizer wrote: > I have an Intel Core2 Duo arriving in the mail in a couple of days, and > I read online that these processors can run in either 32bit or 64bit > mode (just like Athlons can). > > Thing is, the 32bit chroot and ia32-compatibility libraries, are, imo, a > total mess and a real pain in the rear to deal with on a daily basis.
What problems do you have? Are you using schroot? > > I'm looking for people's opinions on whether I should stick with > debian-amd64, or do a reinstall of debian from the main branch (32bit)? > > What, truly, are the real performance differences? Simply support for > 4+G of ram, or something else? I run amd64 on my Athlon. It only has 1GB ram now, but the MB can take 8 GB. The only thing I need i386 is for the odd time when I need flash. Actually, to save download time (given the rate that iceweasel gets updated) I only have it installed in the i386 chroot. For normal browsing, I use amd64 Konqueror however there are two websites that I go to that need iceweasel. Everything else is amd64. I watch DVDs and listen to radio (poor quality over a normal phone dial-up) with amd64 vlc. The chroot didn't take much to set up, however, I found the documentation a little fragmented and not up-to-date. However, once done, I have an icon on my icewm or xfce panel that runs $ schroot -pc etch-ia32 iceweasel. Whenever I run aptitude on the amd64 to update/upgrade Etch, I follow it with # schroot -pc etch-ia32 aptitude The only downside is the 500-ish MB that the chroot takes. I also know, that should I move up to Lenny, that the problem is fixed and I won't need the chroot. As for performance, I can only get my Athlon64 3800+ to budge off of 98% idle for more than a second with some difficulty, such as getting DigiKam to resize a thumbnail to 1024x768. Takes 20 seconds at 100%. And that's with Konquerer downloading another graphics page, a DVD playing, and vi running. I hope this helps. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]