On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:47:54 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds wrote: > >But quite frankly, I refuse to even care about anything past that. If >you have 12G (or heaven forbid, even more) in your machine, and you >can't be bothered to just upgrade to a 64-bit CPU, then quite frankly, >*I* personally can't be bothered to care. > >If they have that much RAM (and bought it a few years ago when a 64-bit >CPU wasn't an option), they can't be poor. > >So the _only_ explanation today for 12GB on a 32-bit machine is > (a) insanity >or > (b) being so lazy as to not bother to upgrade >
Just around the corner... $ ftp ftp Connected to ftp.gwdg.de. 220-==================================================================== 220-Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen 220-==================================================================== 220-This is a Linux PC (Dell PE-2650, 2 CPUs P4/2800, 12 GB RAM) 220-running SuSE-Linux-8.2 with SuSE kernel 2.4.20-64GB-SMP. There is no reason to upgrade the hardware - if it works, hey good then. And I am pretty sure that a few 2 GB sticks are cheaper than a big opteron (if you only go by that). It sure is now - and probably even back then. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/