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Originally Posted by microchip8
What? did you just made this up. How will the system become sluggish/overloaded if you have less than 2 GB RAM and install a 64-bit OS? You're talking complete nonsense here. I guess all my 64-bit systems with only 1.5 GB RAM are really sluggish/overloaded yet I haven't experienced this at all O.o
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Tssssss. Why do people take everything personal and are so aggressive in their expression.
As you may have noticed I did
not contradict what you said about the CPU architecture and substantially you say the same as me when it comes to the major advantages (multimedia, stat packages and video editing). So?
There is not use to express yourself so aggressively as to write "you are talking complete nonsense here".
You may have valuable points but then.....what impact do you hope to achieve in the overall climate of the forum if you express yourself like this?
I said: in
MY experience. So you may well write that your experience is different.
You have valuable points such as: specific applications, your own experience, etc.
Btw, having said this, the problems of responsiveness of the system might well be also a different compatibility with chip-sets and system? The one(s) I perceived a difference with ,and where 32 bits were, IMHO, better suited, was a X2 64 AMD with 1 GB DDR and softraid. The system was low on resources with 64 bit (11.1, KDE4) with picture editing and reproduction of large videos (and swapping). Swapping resulted annoying, causing sound interrupts with a skysat dvbs card. Before, the same system ran well with the 32 bit version.
The whole problem was much more acceptable with "zypper remove *beagle*" as one would have expected, but still it swapped.
It runs now like a dream with 8 GB RAM under 64 bit (that we had luckily at the price of 2 GB RAM, so why not?
) and is all another story.
By thinking of it: maybe the "RAM limit" where it begins to be convenient to stay 32 bit is 1 GB. Because actually the system in idle swapped 500 MB (so probably it would have run well with 500 MB more - which is what you do experience, right?).