On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Keith Hinton <keithint1234@xxxxxxxxx> 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, regardless of GUI/console? i really don't think there is a way to answer this. i'm not an expert on hardware, but 64bit applies to the CPU, nothing else. a larger bottom level cache allows the CPU to view/consume more data/bits at once, and to perform better on precision mathematics like heavy floating point operations. i don't see it having much-to-any effect on RAM usage, but again maybe i'm missing something and then someone will surely correct me :-) > I have an Intel 2 core dule T9600 2.80 GHZ, 4 Gb of RAM installed, with a > 320 Gb hard-drive installed in my laptop. plenty > I tend to put a lot of RAM aside for virtual machines specifically. At > present due to some requirements, I'm using Arch virtually on top of a > Windows Seven host. > I want to put this setup later on to Linux, and for now am doing fine with > this virtual stuff. However I should mention that the host is 32-bit at > present, and I was curious how much RAM is used in general under pure Arch > 64? again don't worry about the differences. 64 bit means you don't have to deal with address space limits/etc.... its the way to go. > I would probably attempt to alocate about 3GB from the system. > Anyone using virtualization and VMs heavily on any platform is aware of the > RAM requirements, surely. > I was just curious if I'd be making a mistake and/or if this would be > possible? do it. > Thanks! > > Regards, --Keith C Anthony
