Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-25 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 17:05 +0200, Nicky726 wrote: I have experimentally found out, that 64 bit Linux distro uses like 40 -- 80 % more of RAM than 32 bit. Now it seemed to be both aplication and distro dependant, with Arch being on the better side. Though I've got to say again, it was

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Ty John
On 24/05/10 02:32 PM, Keith Hinton wrote: Hi all. I had a question about the sixty four bit port of Arch in general so figured this would be an okay place besides IRC to obtain any help I needed. I wanted to find out ruffly how much memory Arch sixty four will use for any program in general,

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Nicky726
Dne Po 24. května 2010 15:36:37 Keith Hinton at arch-general- requ...@archlinux.org napsal(a): Hi all. I had a question about the sixty four bit port of Arch in general so figured this would be an okay place besides IRC to obtain any help I needed. I wanted to find out ruffly how much memory

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le lundi 24 à 0:29, C Anthony Risinger a écrit : On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Keith Hinton keithint1...@gmail.com wrote: I had a question about the sixty four bit port of Arch in general so figured this would be an okay place besides IRC to obtain any help I needed. I wanted to find out

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread b1
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 23:48 +0200, Frédéric Perrin wrote: Le lundi 24 à 0:29, C Anthony Risinger a écrit : On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Keith Hinton keithint1...@gmail.com wrote: I had a question about the sixty four bit port of Arch in general so figured this would be an okay

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Gary Wright
2010/5/24 Frédéric Perrin frederic.per...@resel.fr: On a 64 bit machine, in « char *p; », p will use 64 bits (8 bytes), instead of 4 bytes in a 32 bits machine [I'm talking about p, not about *p which doesn't look like it exists]. Gary Wright seems to be saying that the impact is negligible.

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Adriano Moura
This is actually normal. 64 bits systems uses 64bits per memory address, by default. That alone would make 64bits systems eat twice as much memory than a 32bit systems. Of course you can program can be coded to use 32bit variables, but hey, isn't the larger number representation one of the 64bits

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Adriano Moura
Need to revise my text next time. Hope it's legible. 2010/5/25 Adriano Moura adriano.l...@gmail.com: This is actually normal. 64 bits systems uses 64bits per memory address, by default. That alone would make 64bits systems eat twice as much memory than a 32bit systems. Of course you can

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 05/24/10 23:48, Adriano Moura wrote: This is actually normal. 64 bits systems uses 64bits per memory address, by default. That alone would make 64bits systems eat twice as much memory than a 32bit systems. Only for the memory-address part of the data (a.k.a. pointers). UTF-8 text will

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-23 Thread Gary Wright
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Keith Hinton keithint1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I had a question about the sixty four bit port of Arch in general so figured this would be an okay place besides IRC to obtain any help I needed. I wanted to find out ruffly how much memory Arch sixty four

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-23 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Keith Hinton keithint1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I had a question about the sixty four bit port of Arch in general so figured this would be an okay place besides IRC to obtain any help I needed. I wanted to find out ruffly how much memory Arch sixty four