Many people also forget about the performance boost on CPU intensive
apps by running 64 bit mode, even if you don't need extra memory. This
can be a 5%-15% depending on the application. This includes the OS. The
reason is 64 bit mode not only allows 64 bit memory access and
registers, but it also doubles the number of registers available.
I would always recommend to use 64 bit whenever possible unless there
is a pressing need to stick with 32 bit.
S.W.
On 1/26/2010 11:05 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Pasi
KÃrkkÃinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
On
Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:30:40AM -0800, Grant McWilliams wrote:
> Â ÂOn Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Pasi KÃârkkÃâinen <[1]pasik@xxxxxx>
> Â Âwrote:
>
> Â Â ÂOn Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:22:38PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha
wrote:
> Â Â Â> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ian Tobin <[2]itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Â Â Âwrote:
> Â Â Â> > Thanks for the info guys, ive been playing with
3.4.2 on 32bits but
> Â Â Âim thinking for the future it would be worth having 64bits
for things
> Â Â Âlike win2008R2 as this is 64 bit only.
> Â Â Â>
> Â Â Â> If Windows is your only concern, IIRC 32bit xen can run
64bit HVM
> Â Â Â> domUs just fine. What does "xm info" say about caps?
> Â Â Â>
>
> Â Â ÂI think you need 64b Xen hypervisor to run 64b guests,
> Â Â Âbut dom0 Linux can be still 32bit PAE.
> Â Â Â> Personally I use 64bit xen, dom0, and domU so it would
be easier when
> Â Â Â> I need to assign one of them with memory over 4GB, since
using 32bit
> Â Â Â> PAE has some performance penalty.
> Â Â Â>
>
> Â Â ÂI think there was some benchmarks about this recently and the
> Â Â ÂPAE performance hit wasn't very big..
>
> Â Â ÂAnyway, it's better to use 64b nowadays.
> Â Â Â-- Pasi
>
> Â ÂThat depends one whether you consider (up to) 20% worth
considering! I'd
> Â Âbe willing to change for 5%.
>
> Â Â[3]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=616&num=1
>
Hmm.. did you paste wrong url? That url only has 32b vs. 64b?
Here's 32b vs. 32b PAE benchmark:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_32_pae
Although that benchmark must have something wrong with the 32 vs 64
numbers..
the different can't be THAT big.
"In the fourteen tests for this article we did not find using Ubuntu's
32-bit PAE kernel
to have a dramatic performance impact whether it be positive or
negative.
Granted, we were using just 4GB of system memory that is common to many
desktops,
but if using 8GB, 16GB, or even a greater memory capacity the
performance
penalties are perhaps higher. "
-- Pasi
Yes I did! Thanks. Here try this.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_32_pae&num=1
Grant McWilliams
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