On Friday 23 January 2009 04:20:33 pm Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 23 January 2009 16:07:01 Per Jessen wrote: ...
My thinking was "64 has to be better than 32", if nothing else then because it's 64-bit OS/software on a 64-bit CPU. Well, I was wrong. Because of the increase in memory-usage with 64-bit openSUSE, each server ended upn being able to handle less load running 64bit than 32bit.
Are you saying I should now downgrade my 11.1 installation to the 32-bit version? I waited *forever* to upgrade my increasingly cranky previous system and when I took the plunge, I installed the 'native' 64-bit flavor!
If you use programs that work with large data sets, which on desktop are video or images, or web pages with a lot of images that has to be decompressed, or flash videos from YouTube, you can see substantial improvement. I use GIMP and images are not really huge (about 2048x1536 from 3M pixel camera), and any complex effect is applied much faster then on 32 bit. If it would be possible to put whole image in CPU cache it would 2x faster. The other example mentioned by Larry, is full screen YouTube videos that run smoother. There are other conditions that apply, like size of RAM, hard disk speed, to final effective speed. For instance, Per example where he needed a bit more RAM, otherwise system will start to swap and performance went down. The decisive factor for or against 64 bit is your usage of the computer, and your hardware configuration. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org