Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3513 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tuesday, 2009-01-06 at 13:47 -0000, Rui Santos wrote:

> So... you're saying that the problem may be that some programs may be
> more memory hungry than others, witch can have worst results on a 64
> bits OS.

Right.

> So this mau be a general Linux issue, and not openSUSE specific.

A general computing problem. A 64 bit os will use more memory than a 32 
bit one. And Linux has always been memory hungry, unless tuned to the 
contrary.

> Man, It never crossed my mind I would need 512MB of RAM to perform a
> file system check on a 850MB worth of files on a 100GB vfat file system.
> Gee, this is really, really scary...


Yep, I don't know why, but it is so, at least on linux.

> Thanks for your reply Carlos,

Welcome!

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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