[LAU] 32 vs 64 bit distro?

[david]

A bit more RAM use, yes. I suspect far less than the amount of RAM 
consumed by GUI desktops, or audio samples/soundfonts loaded in memory 
... but even my 8 year old Celeron M based laptop has 2GB of RAM. My 
wife's cheap netbook has 2GB of RAM.

My effects box laptop, which is even older than my laptop, has only 
768MB of RAM. Its processor speed is almost twice that of my laptop. It 
runs 32-bit Linux audio distros (with lightweight GUIs), and struggles 
because of the limited memory. So 32-bit doesn't help much, in my opinion.

On 02/05/2013 11:56 AM, Luigino Bracci wrote:
> You can have problems if your RAM isn't bigger enough (1 GB or less),
> because the applications in a 64-bit OS occupes more RAM.
>
> 2013/2/5 david
>     On 02/04/2013 11:29 PM, James Stone wrote:
>
>         Is there any advantage in using a 64 bit distro for audio? Do the
>         advantages outweigh the difficulties?
>
>         I'm expecting a new computer to be delivered today and am trying to
>         decide what to install...
>
>
>     What difficulties? I run both 32- and 64-bit Linuxes, and have no
>     difficulties with either one.
>
>     I can't imagine why anyone would run a 32-bit Linux on a modern
>     processor. Virtually every processor made today is 64-bit. Even the
>     little old dual-core ARM processor in my wife's netbook is 64-bit!
>
>     64-bit gives programs access to more on-chip registers, and removes
>     the need for the silly physical address extension (PAE) stuff


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