On Thursday 29 August 2013 07:28 PM, staticsafe wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 08:25:35AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I'll be installing Debian 7.1 on two unrelated sets of machines. I >> have no record of the cpu in any of the machines. Is there a utility >> to identify the processors, particularly bus width. All machines >> originally ran various 32 bit MS Windows incarnations. >> >> Three personal machines: >> 1. A Lenovo desktop currently running WinXP Pro SP3 >> 2. An IBM/Lenovo T43 Thinkpad laptop running WinXP Pro SP3 >> 3. A Lenovo R61 Thinkpad laptop currently running various >> configurations of Squeeze. There were stickers on it when I >> purchased it saying "Intel Core2 Duo" and "Windows Vista Basic". >> Windows was completely removed when I installed Squeeze. >> >> >> A collection of donated machines at church being used for a outreach >> program for the neighborhood K-6 children. OS include Win98 and >> later. >> >> For the time being all Debian installs will be 32 bit. In a year or >> so, capable machines will be migrated to 64 bit. There are >> non-technical constraints precluding immediate migration to 64 bit. >> >> Suggestions/comments? >> TIA >> > > cat /proc/cpuinfo and Google will do the job. > Hi Richard,
A few weeks ago we had an interesting thread discussing the performance advantage of 64bit vs 32bit kernels and the outcome was that except for server loads where a couple of % points make a difference, you may not really need to go for 64bit. So, unless there's a reason like huge amounts of RAM, you're better off with the 32bit kernel. 2 cents, Kailash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/521f55df.2010...@gmail.com
