On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 15:12 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 13:48, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The Fedora web resources (e.g. http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora ) > >> continue to promote i686 installs over x86_64, the result being that > >> only a third of fedora users are on x86_64. > >> > >> When will the Fedora project begin recommending x86_64 as the > >> preferred option on the relevant hardware? > > > > Well while many people have x86_64 capable hardware, 66% of the > > systems have less than 2GB of ram installed on them. The gain of extra > > registers is taken over by the amount of extra memory used. So I am > > not sure pushing 64 bit will gain much beyond "why am I using so much > > memory now?" messages. > > I agree that systems which are very short on memory will be happier > with i386 but I don't think 2GBytes is at all a reasonable cut-off. My fairly typical (I imagine) F14 x86-64 desktop, running Evo, Firefox, terminal, Xchat, Revelation, gedit, Rhythmbox is sitting at 2GB memory usage right now, so it seems like a reasonable cut-off to me at least. (900MB of that is Evo + Firefox, BTW). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
