[ltp] How much performance improvement going from 32-bit to 64-bit linux?

[Damjan]

> The same for me. I noticed NO improvement on performance. However I started
> having a whole new category of problems. No Flash, problems with certain
> software, no Firefox, having to run incompatible apps in chroot jails,
> automatic system updates which every time need some attention because you
> always need to manually tweak something etc. Just imagine having nVidia or
> ATI drivers and having to recompile and re-re everything every time there's
> a tiny update to Xorg or some other related component. It's not worth it if
> you don't absolutely need it. If you need to use more memory than 3GB use a
> "bigmem" kernel .

No Firefox and Flash!?!
I'm running ArchLinux and it has both (and they work just fine).

The only problem is the ATI catalyst drivers they need recompiling and
reinstalling - but that's jsut because ArchLinux developers removed
official support for them.


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