[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 32 bit or 64 bit?

[Shrikant Khanduri]

In 64 bit Ubuntu, there will be a problem when you have 512 MB or less RAM.
Because In Idle Condition it will consume ~400MB.
2 years Ago I was having 64bit AMD processor and 512 RAM, I had to switch to
32 bit that time.
But now I have 2 GB RAM, and INTEL 64 Bit Processor, so now I am using 64
bit Ubuntu 9.10.
You can switch to 64 bit if RAM is 1 GB or more.
64 bit can address terabytes of RAM, so there will be no 4GB limit with 64
bit processor.

>> how 32bit consumes more RAM?
I think you wanna ask about 64 bit RAM consumption. that is I guess due to
large size of variables, pointers and other such reasons, Not sure.

Shrikant



2010/4/15 Mallikarjun <mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com>

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>   On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:51 PM, janardhanan srinivas <
> janardhanan.srinivas2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> 2010/4/7 Mallikarjun <mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com>
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>>
>>>
>>>  On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Shrikant Khanduri <
>>> shrikant.khanduri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Your RAM Comsumption will be more wrt 32 bit OS.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you kindly elaborate on the above point, as I am skeptic about how
>>> 32bit consumes more RAM?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Although Future is 64 Bit OS. Go for it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7 April 2010 19:09, Abhinav Modi <abhinavmodi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Mohamed Khaleel <gotokhaleel at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>  > Hello Everyone,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I have a Core 2 Duo PC and I have to install Ubuntu on it. I would
>>>>> like to
>>>>> > know if I have to go with 32 bit or 64 bit. Sure I know that 32 OS
>>>>> bit will
>>>>> > work on 64 bit processor. But I want to really use the 64 bit if its
>>>>> > supported by processor.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Are there any known issues in the 64 bit version of Ubuntu with Core
>>>>> 2 Duo
>>>>> > (if supported)?
>>>>> > How is the availability of softwares(open source, some graphics card
>>>>> drivers
>>>>> > etc)?
>>>>> > Will all 32 bit packages work on 64 bit Ubuntu OS?
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> Have been using Ubuntu 64 bit with an AMD Quad Core (9.10, upgraded to
>>>>> 10.04 beta recently). Haven't had any issues with 9.10 at all. With
>>>>> 10.04 there is some problem with flash, which will hopefully be
>>>>> resolved before final release.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would say go for 64 bit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this helps
>>>>> Abhinav
>>>>>
>>>>> http://indimark.blogspot.com
>>>>> http://www.employees.org/~abhinav/blog
>>>>>
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>>> no u got it wrong 64 bit can access more ram which is good if you have
>> 3-4 gb of ram
>>
>> Not exactly I think, Though 64 bit can support more amount of RAM, It does
> not harm anything @ 2GB of RAM... Hope I am right
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