On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote: >> >>> I don't know of a good reason for a normal user to run the 64bit kernel. >> >> Also, I am not entirely a "normal" user. > > There are two reasons I'm aware of to run the 64bit kernel: > > - You're doing driver development (so you want to test the 64bit version of > your driver with the 64bit kernel) > - You're running a server and need the extra room you get with the 64bit > kernel to tune things (but even if you think you're in this category, you > probably aren't ;-) ) > >> I do >> need to run a 64-bit JVM very occasionally because we sometimes deal >> with huge datasets. This implies that I simply run a 64-bit JVM all >> the time. > > which runs fine on the 32bit kernel...
Yes, but if it can't allocate more than 4GiB of heap, that kind of defeats the whole reason why I am running it in the first place... > > -- > Daniel J. Luke > +========================================================+ > | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | > | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | > +========================================================+ > | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | > | reflect the opinions of my employer. | > +========================================================+ > > > > > -- Johannes Obligatory current favourite quotes: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful". -- Seneca "I have more confidence in the methods of science, based on the amazing record of science and its ability over the centuries to answer unanswerable questions, than I do in the methods of faith (what are they?)." -- David J. Gross "Physics Nobel Laureate" "Atheism is a religion to the same extent that not collecting stamps is a hobby." -- seen on Slashdot.org _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
