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Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vs 32 bit advantages speed etc.
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 18:47 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

Even if you use a "36-bit" PAE kernel, it can only give a process
a 32-bit address space.
You want at least a 64-bit kernel. Everyone does that on SUN processors
even though 64 bitisms are more expensive there.

You suggest that it would be a good idea to use 64-bit kernel and all
other stuff on 32-bit?

Thanks!

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Igor Jagec
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