32 or 64 bit Mandriva

[Omer Zak]

Currently I use 64-bit Debian Squeeze and Debian Wheezy (testing) on few
machines, and I am not aware of any problems.

However, if you have less than 4GB memory and no plans to add more
memory, then you'll get no advantage from moving to 64-bit.  Application
binaries will also be a bit bigger due to the 64-bit pointers, and since
virtual memory is being used, this means also a bit slower work.

--- Omer


On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 10:25 +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> I'm about to upgrade my Mandriva 2010 to 2011 and want to decide if I should 
> go to 64 bit. 
> I know that years ago, when the first 64 bit versions came out there were alot 
> of problems (drivers, flash, Firefox ...). In any case, I never bothered to 
> check each time I updated and stayed with 32.
> Today, I Googled the problem and found conflicting opinions. Some say no 
> problems, others mention Firefox or video cards, and some even claim 32 is 
> faster than 64 because of smaller memory pointers. My guess is that the 
> pointer thing is really not significant, but I may be wrong.
> To be clear, this is a desktop machine, not used for development or 
> programing, so compilers, etc aren't relevant. I also don't have >4 Gb of 
> memory, so the memory addressing advantage of 64 bit is also not relevant.
> 
> Opinions are welcome (especially, not not only) from Mandriva users.
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