Re: [LUG] Intel i5. Debian 32 or 64 bit?

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Adrian Midgley wrote:

> New machine here, got an Ubuntu install on it which is quite nice but
> a bit disorienting.
>
> 8GBytes of RAM.
>
> Is Debian 64 the way to go, whch I gather means the AMD64 download, or
> should I stick to 32 bit (with the bigmem stuff)?

One simple question: Will you ever need a single program to use more than 
3.5GB of RAM?

If the answer is yes, then you need a 64-bit system.

However if not then you'll be fine with a 32-bit system. I have a couple 
of servers with 8 & 16GB of RAM that are running 32-bit Debian without any 
issues.

I think Debian Squeeze comes with both 32 and 64-bit installs on the same 
Netinst CD these days... I wasn't aware you needed to use an AMD system 
for 64-bit...

Gordon

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