On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:53:12AM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > I don't think this is always the case. Obviously if you run a lot of > both kinds of apps it matters, but if there are a few, small x86-64 > processes (say e.g. the xserver, or a database instance) the doubled mem > use from some shared libraries should not affect things overly much. In > most practical uses of computers (i.e. those that actually *do* > something) most memory is used for the users "data", and for that, x32 > uses less ram, as all pointers in the ram structures are half the size. > > Obviously, it all "depends". But I think x32 makes a lot of sense as an > option, especially in the virtual machine space. Can we get some definite numbers? -- Tomasz Torcz "God, root, what's the difference?" xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx "God is more forgiving." -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
