[Wylug-discuss] Linux on Intel 64-Bit Xeon

[John Hodrien]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Jason Lander wrote:

>
> Dave,
>
>> I was thinking of something like 2G of memory.
>
> As far as I know, all of your 2Gb of memory will be accessaible via 32-bit
> addresses.
>
> I'm not sure if you'll need any of the 64-bit additions.

You certainly don't *need* the extensions, but there can be performance
advantages depending on what you're doing.  If I were to shoot from the hip
and guess what you'll be doing on it, I wouldn't bother and would stick with
a 32bit install.

jh

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