[ale] Fedora 9 64 bit

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---- "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote: 
> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 00:36 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > No point in 64 bit unless you have more than 4 GB RAM.
> 
> Strange that I didn't think of this before, but if you want more than 4
> GB total process space (say, you only have 1 GB of RAM, and need to
> do---though not often, of course---some high-end number-crunching or
> massive data manipulation), you can always have a massively huge swap
> file or partition and then your process can use that.  It'd be better to
> use something faster than a hard disk for such swap space, if at all
> possible, but you can do it that way, albeit a bit more slowly.
> 
> It is also seemingly possible to add very fast swap space to your
> system---use what your video card isn't using [1].  I haven't tried
> that, but it seems like an interesting idea.
> 
> 	--- Mike
> 
> [1] http://tinyurl.com/4xaf43
> 
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Hmm interesting I'll have to try that one. Also thanks for your response on the Gimp & Inkscape question. I'm definitely leaning towards installing 64-bit, as soon as I get my system running again. It just barfed on me so I notified Fry's to expect me bringing back the MoBo for return. Getting another one at MicroCenter.