On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 19:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/16/12, Nilesh Govindrajan <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > > So the same old query again I guess. > > What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit > > processor? > > > > I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or > > = 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable with PAE if I'm not wrong. > > > > So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64bit > > for me. > > > > Why 32? ... Flash, win32 codecs, probably Wine but not sure as it has > been years... > > Why 64? ... Virtualization... > > Depends on what you want and/or need. > > HTH, > Mark >
Virtualisation ? I am running qemu (windows, gentoo), vbox (windows, gentoo, fedora) and gxemul (ultrix) all 32 bit guests on 32 bit systems on either 32 or 64 bit hardware running gentoo - can you confirm you need 64bit for 64bit guests as I will be moving that way eventually? That being said, I think for future proofing 64bit is the way to go, I can see a time when 32bit is going to get deprecated. Billk
