On 18/06/09 11:03, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
Its all a matter of how you look at it. If it turns out that a lot of 64bit hardware owners are running 32bit Fedora 11...
It would be useful if anaconda displayed a info box telling people when they were considering installing 32b Linux on systems with 32/64b CPUs and more than about 800MB of RAM. [1] In disk and networking the win from 64b is considerable due to much reduced low memory fragmentation and in general there's a lot less stuffing about with DMA. It is well worthwhile for people to install 64b Linux when that is reasonable, but as this thread has pointed out determining 64b capabilities prior to installation is a big ask of people unfamiliar with the intricacies of their CPU vendor's products. Thus the requirement to let installers of 32b Linux know when a better choice is available (but of course, not to insist upon that better choice -- the info box should only be informational). [1] More technically, when /proc/meminfo's LowTotal < MemTotal. -- Glen Turner -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
