Memory usage i686 vs. x86_64

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Fri Sep 5 20:13:07 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 16:07 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:

> I suspect a user using Fedora day-to-day on a 2GB system is likely to
> have a better experience with an i686 userspace. If the user gets an
> extra 500GB of memory by using i686, that's likely going to outweigh
       ^^^^^^
> any performance benefits of the 64-bit instruction set.

Perhaps obviously, I meant to say 500MB here.

- Owen




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