On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Keith Hinton <keithint1234@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all. I had a question about the sixty four bit port of Arch in general so figured this would be an okay place besides IRC to obtain any help I needed. I wanted to find out ruffly how much memory Arch sixty four will use for any program in general, regardless of GUI/console?
i really don't think there is a way to answer this. i'm not an expert on hardware, but 64bit applies to the CPU, nothing else. a larger bottom level cache allows the CPU to view/consume more data/bits at once, and to perform better on precision mathematics like heavy floating point operations. i don't see it having much-to-any effect on RAM usage, but again maybe i'm missing something and then someone will surely correct me :-)
I have an Intel 2 core dule T9600 2.80 GHZ, 4 Gb of RAM installed, with a 320 Gb hard-drive installed in my laptop.
plenty
I tend to put a lot of RAM aside for virtual machines specifically. At present due to some requirements, I'm using Arch virtually on top of a Windows Seven host. I want to put this setup later on to Linux, and for now am doing fine with this virtual stuff. However I should mention that the host is 32-bit at present, and I was curious how much RAM is used in general under pure Arch 64?
again don't worry about the differences. 64 bit means you don't have to deal with address space limits/etc.... its the way to go.
I would probably attempt to alocate about 3GB from the system. Anyone using virtualization and VMs heavily on any platform is aware of the RAM requirements, surely. I was just curious if I'd be making a mistake and/or if this would be possible?
do it.
Thanks!
Regards, --Keith
C Anthony