18 Nov
2015
18 Nov
'15
11:31 a.m.
Hello Chris,
On 2015-11-18 10:46, Chris Dennis wrote:
Hello BitFolk People
I'm about to install Debian on my shiny new SSD-based BitFolk VPS, in
the standard configuration with 1GB of RAM and 10GB of disk space.
And the first question is: Should I, in 2015, go for 64 bits or 32
bits?
* The BitFolk rescue environment supports 64 bits now.
* Addressing 1GB of RAM is not an issue.
* Will a 64-bit system run faster? Or slower?
* Will 64-bit executables waste precious disk space?
No, but it will chew up more RAM. At 10GB of HDD space, you have more
than enough. 1Gb RAM is not a lot, so any little bit of saving you can
do is worth considering. Other than that, 32-bit vs. 64-bit is almost
academic.
For a long time, running 64-bit systems involved
various hacks and
workarounds and 32-bit libraries for software that was not yet
compiled for 64 bits. Is the opposite happening yet? -- i.e. is it
becoming necessary to allow for software that no longer supports 32
bits?
No, all that is a thing of the past.
--
Regards,
Jan Henkins