[Gllug] How much system memory do I have?

ryan-ir at hai.fi ryan-ir at hai.fi
Thu May 7 09:47:33 UTC 2009


On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:41:15AM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 12:32:49PM +0300, ryan-ir at hai.fi wrote:
> [...]
> > The processor is infact a 64 bit one but I have been a little reluctant to
> > play with a 64 bit version of linux. Maybe I should bite the bullet and give
> > one a go - no doubt it will be educational.
> 
> It will be too unspectacular to be educational. 64 bit Debian looks exactly
> the same as 32 bit Debian, except that my runaway Perl scripts can now suck
> up more than 3GB of memory.

Really? I thought that there were some programs that could only be run
with 32 libraries and so necessitating the system with bith 64 and 32 bit
libraries. I should say that this is pretty much a desktop system.

t. ir

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