On 10/10/07, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-10 15:10]: > > On 10/9/07, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-09 19:34]: > > > >> then, an i386 kernel should perform considerably better than amd64 for > > > >> firewalling/routing/... > > > > That is surprising. What is the reason? > > > we dunno really. it hasn't been benched in sometimesoit might not even > > > be true nay more, but last time the difference was dramatic. > > I thought by running an amd64 kernel will get me twice the speed than > > an i386 on an amd64 machine since one is 64 bit processing and the > > other is just 32 bit :-( > > so you think a 20 ton truck is twice as fast as a 10 ton truck? >
O.K I get it :-) So when does changing from 32 bit to a 64-bit processor actually help? Kind Regards Siju
