[CentOS] cpu type

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Mon Feb 4 20:36:57 UTC 2008


On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:01:11 -0700
Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote:

> If you don't have enough RAM to need 64-bit addressing, you're just 
> slowing the system down, making it deal with larger addresses for no 
> benefit.

While my Centos machines are all running 32-bit at the moment, I have Fedora
8/x86_64 on my main desktop computer (this one) and there is a noticeable
speed increase when scrolling a large Scribus document, compared to when I had
Fedora 7/i386 on this same computer.

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