Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:38 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
That makes no sense. On systems I've used recently (since multi-megabyte RAM configurations became an economical option for desktop systems), going from one gig to two has made a big difference for many of the scenarios I encounter in everyday work. I see no reason to stop anywhere short of the 4 GB that is natively addressable by a 32-bit architecture.
Let me re-phrase ...
- 1GiB on Linux/x86 - 2GiB on NT/x86
If you go more than 1GB in Linux, go x86-64 -- specifically AMD64 and _not_ EM64T (aka IA-32e). There is a _significant_ performance hit when you go into the 4G/4G or 64G models.
But when your machine has 2Gb, you've yet to go into those models. So _why_ do _you_ not recommend more than 1Gb on x86? Just as Randall, I see no reason why one should not use e.g. 2 or 4Gb with an x86 processor. The performance hit is presumably that of going to a three-level address lookup when using PAE. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com