On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Insurance Squared Inc. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
My wife is running Mandriva(32bit) on her business computer with a couple of gigs of ram. Everything runs fine except her windows bookkeeping app. I've got virtualbox installed to run windows and it's just slow - slow enough that she mentions it.<br>
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My thinking is that she needs more RAM. To get more RAM, she really needs a 64 bit OS. For a 64 bit OS, I need a machine that has a processor that will work with that (is that correct? I've tried to install mandriva 64bit before on other machines and it objected because the hardware wasn't 64 bit).<br>
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Am I on the right track here? </blockquote><div><br>Certain things will be faster on 64-bit. I saw benchmarks for web
applications using Apache that were noticeably faster on 64-bit than on
32-bit on the same hardware. <br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Upgrade her hardware to a new processor with lots of RAM, then upgrade the OS to take advantage of the RAM, then virtualbox will run faster? </blockquote>
<div><br>I can't say for sure. Perhaps.<br><br>The part that concerns me is how you can upgrade from 32 to 64 without a reinstall.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
If so, what kind of hardware should I be looking at, processor-wise and how much ram would you get?<br></blockquote><div><br>Use a bootable CD distro (any distro will do). Drop to a shell, then run:<br><br>cat /proc/cpuinfo<br>
<br>Look at the "flags" line. If you have "lm", then it is Long Mode, meaning it is 64 bits.<br></div></div>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>
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