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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit.
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:17:07
Message-Id: 4D264480.7010309@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit. by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Thursday 06 January 2011 14:52:34 Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Darragh Bailey wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> I could be wrong here, but aren't both seamonkey-bin& FahCore_a3.exe
7 >>> 32bit applications? That would mean that you're likely loading both
8 >>> 32bit and 64bit versions of a number of libraries. Would certainly count
9 >>> towards a higher memory usage.
10 >>>
11 >> That is a compiled seamonkey. It installs it as seamonkey-bin since
12 >> after I compile it here, it is then a binary. I don't have any
13 >> precompiled binaries here that I know of.
14 >>
15 >> I chose the 64 bit folding package. That's what was on the web page at
16 >> least. Since it is a binary, I can't be sure of that.
17 >>
18 >> Dale
19 >>
20 >> :-) :-)
21 >>
22 > file can tell you that.
23 >
24 >
25 >
26
27 I thought there was a way but couldn't remember what it was. I only
28 used that once.
29
30 root@fireball / # file /root/foldingathome/fah6
31 /root/foldingathome/fah6: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1
32 (SYSV), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped
33 root@fireball / #
34
35 So I guess we know now that that is 64 bit.
36
37 Dale
38
39 :-) :-)