My understanding was that 32bit could only address about 3.5gb RAM. I'm on my phone right now so I can't verify but some googlemancy should clear that up.
On 2/9/10, xe22 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The main reason to run 64-bit is if you have> 3GB of RAM. You can run> >> 3GB >> of RAM with 32-bit if you use PAE [Physical Address Extension], but PAE >> still >> only allows individual applications to use up to 3 GB of RAM. Most >> applications don't need that much RAM (for now), so this is mostly a >> non-issue. >> >> So IMHO it doesn't really matter one way or the other which you choose; I >> went >> over to 64-bit mainly to try it out and see what issues I'd run into -- >> which >> are minimal -- only a couple of missing packages, and if I actually cared >> I >> could install the missing packages from 32-bit to get around that issue. >> >> -- Chris >> >> >> > I thought 32 bit could use up to 4GB of memory, and 64 > had a much higher limit. If not you just saved me from > buying 2 more sticks to make it four. > > Louis > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration > Apr 7 - Nagios > May 5 - Android > -- -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration Apr 7 - Nagios May 5 - Android
