joe sloan njktmsusacom randall r schulz wrote wednesday 20 february 2008 1451 john andersen wrote wed feb 20 2008 1226 pm andrei verovski aka macguru wrote hi pc box core 2 quad p35 chipset 4 gb ram 22 gb 32bit opensuse 103 kerneldefault installed proper kernel machine x86_64 32 bit processors work fine 32bit mode support pae mode give access memory 20 30 speed boost typical mix software weve ill say means fact john presents better rule thumb never run 64bit processor tasks dont require address space affords good advice ive got busy server office 4 cpus 16 gb ram running 64 bit suse os really needs bigger address space otoh seeing 18 months thoroughly unimpressive performance mail server home network machine 1 gb ram upgraded suse 10264 suse 10332 performs much better 32 bit os use 64bit makes sense machine big enough actually benefit 64 bit os dont depend 3rd party software play well 64 bits done joe thu 07 aug 2008 043348 0800 opensuse 35 gb ram rest missing