Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS??

From	ray <ray@zianet.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS??
Date	2012-02-29 02:43 +0000
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:12:13 -0600, JEDIDIAH wrote:

> On 2012-02-28, ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:53:38 -0600, JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012-02-28, ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:52:44 +0000, Bob Tennent wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 28 Feb 2012 15:56:42 GMT, ray wrote:
>>>>>  > On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:07:40 +0000, ray wrote:
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  >> Would there be any particular advantage to running a 64 bit
>>>>>  >> version of, say, Debian on a netbook which is limited to 2gb RAM
>>>>>  >> but does have a 64 bit Atom processor?
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > Thanks for the responses. This machine will not be doing
>>>>>  > elaborate things. I'll do typical stuff - surf, check e-mail.
>>>>>  > I'll also be doing some web page maintenance and development -
>>>>>  > may get into some android apps later.
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > Got a good buy on an Acer Aspire One D257 (with dual core Atom) -
>>>>>  > 1gb of ram which I'll probably up to 2gb. The mobo has one slot
>>>>>  > good for 2gb. Also has a 320gb hard drive.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Unless you really need that much space, consider replacing the hard
>>>>> drive by an SSD. Much faster, lighter, quieter, more robust,
>>>>> longer-lasting battery charge. You can use the hard drive as an
>>>>> external USB drive for large files and backups.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bob T.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the suggestion. I recently upgraded my wife's eeepc from
>>>> an older 4gb SSD to a new 32gb SSD and increased the RAM from 1gb to
>>>> 2 - made quite a difference in performance with the new drive - specs
>>>> say it's about 3-5x faster doing i/o and hdparm confirms that.
>>> 
>>>      If you also changed the memory then how can you tell the SSD is
>>> responsible for any of that improvement?
>>> 
>>>      After my first big memory upgrade back in the day my SO suspected
>>> that I had gone and gotten a CPU upgrade. Actually having enough RAM
>>> to accomodate the OS was like night and day.
>>
>> Never saw it page. And, as I said, hdparm indicated much improved disk
>> performance.
> 
>     That just means the disk is faster, which is probably somethat
>     obvious
> given that it is an SSD. Whether or not making that particular bit of
> the system faster was of any real benefit is another matter. I would
> hope that an SSD on a Linux desktop would not have that much impact.

I replaced an older, slower 4GB SSD with a new, faster 32GB SSD. The 
specs for I/O are about 5x faster for the new drive than the old one. If 
you hadn't noticed, Linux is disk intensive.

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Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2012-02-27 18:07 +0000
  Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-27 20:05 +0100
    Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-27 20:39 +0100
    Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2012-02-27 22:04 +0100
      Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-28 00:06 +0100
        Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2012-02-29 20:49 +0100
      Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Dave <noone$$@llondel.org> - 2012-02-28 07:28 +0000
    Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2012-03-02 22:42 +0100
      Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-03-03 00:18 +0100
        Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-03-03 09:27 +0000
  Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? DenverD <DenverD@invalid.dk> - 2012-02-27 22:54 +0100
    Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Eric Valette <EricNo.SPAMvalette@free.fr> - 2012-02-27 23:46 +0100
  Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Stefan Patric <not@this.address.com> - 2012-02-28 02:32 +0000
    Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Eric VALETTE <ericNo.Spamvalette@free.fr> - 2012-02-28 10:04 +0100
      Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-02-28 11:30 -0600
        Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Eric Valette <EricNo.SPAMvalette@free.fr> - 2012-02-28 19:21 +0100
          Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-02-28 15:50 -0600
            Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Eric Valette <EricNo.SpamValette@free.fr> - 2012-02-29 22:11 +0100
        Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Eric Valette <EricNo.SPAMvalette@free.fr> - 2012-02-28 19:23 +0100
          Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-02-28 15:51 -0600
            Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Eric Valette <EricNo.SpamValette@free.fr> - 2012-02-29 22:45 +0100
      Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Stefan Patric <not@this.address.com> - 2012-02-28 20:32 +0000
        Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Eric Valette <EricNo.SpamValette@free.fr> - 2012-02-29 22:12 +0100
          Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Stefan Patric <not@this.address.com> - 2012-03-01 05:47 +0000
            Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Eric VALETTE <ericNo.Spamvalette@free.fr> - 2012-03-01 10:32 +0100
              Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-03-01 13:54 -0600
                Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Eric Valette <EricNo.SpamValette@free.fr> - 2012-03-02 23:18 +0100
                Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-03-05 15:08 -0600
                Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Eric Valette <EricNo.SpamValette@free.fr> - 2012-03-02 23:18 +0100
              Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Stefan Patric <not@this.address.com> - 2012-03-02 00:40 +0000
                Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Eric Valette <EricNo.SpamValette@free.fr> - 2012-03-02 23:37 +0100
                Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Stefan Patric <not@this.address.com> - 2012-03-03 18:04 +0000
                Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-03-05 15:16 -0600
  Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2012-02-28 15:56 +0000
    Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Bob Tennent <BobT@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-02-28 16:52 +0000
      Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2012-02-28 19:24 +0000
        Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-02-28 15:53 -0600
          Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2012-02-28 22:15 +0000
            Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-02-28 17:12 -0600
              Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2012-02-29 02:43 +0000
                Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-02-29 12:35 -0600
                Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Bob Tennent <BobT@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-02-29 19:51 +0000
        Re: Atom netbook - 32 or 64 bit OS?? Bob Tennent <BobT@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-02-28 22:36 +0000

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