Memory usage for AMD64

Francisco Reyes lists at natserv.com
Fri May 27 08:23:31 PDT 2005


On Fri, 27 May 2005, Adriaan de Groot wrote:

>>> I am planning on getting 256MB anyways, but want to make sure that AMD64
>>> doesn't have a bigger memory footprint for the OS and that apps don't use
>>> significantly more memory when compiled under AMD64.
>
> So then -- if you insist on using only a tiny memory size -- run it in i386
> mode; it;ll be a fast x86 system then.

Based on the feedback I got AMD64 uses more memory. Increased the memory 
to 512MB.


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