Re: FOLLOWUP -- 4 GB installed -- but Linux sees only 3

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:10:48 -0500, Dances With Crows <danSPANceswithTRAPcrows@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Ignoramus32056 staggered into the Black Sun and said:
stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
Does 64-bit Linux run on 32-bit machines (such as *86 machines)?
No of course not-- you need an x64 machine. Fortunately almost all
modern PCs are x64

There are still a bunch of x86-32 laptops floating around.

I am happy with PAE. I am not anticipating processes that would take
more than 3 GB either. Now, I am going to build a second colocated
webserver, and for that, I would like to use 64 bit if it is as mature
as advertised.

Linux x86-64 is stable and works well for *most* things. Server apps
will be no problem. Most desktop apps work fine (except OOO, which runs
fine under 32-bit emulation). The evil nvidia binary-only modules work
fine. Compiling wmctrl on the x86-64 didn't work (some programmer
thought long would always be 32 bits, or something.) The x86-32
emulation libs worked well for every non-64bit program I tried *except*
epsxe. So if you want to play old PSX games, you're sort of stuck with
x86-32.

OK. I am interested in server stuff (Apache, MySQL, perl etc).

How'd the LVM thing all work out, anyway?


It did not work out. I did not do anything yet. I think that I should
get a new server and make this one a backup server, that would be the
safest thing to do. In the new server, I will not use LVM, will have
hot swappable SATA disks and 8 GB of RAM.

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