Ben Edwards wrote:
> If I stick to 32bit will both cores be used, are there
performance
> benefits or just memory addressing etc of 64bit.
>
There is an oft debatable performance improvement. I think
it's in the
area of 10% on some applications (that are cpu bound).
Other processes
are reported to take a performance hit, and memory usage
increases
> Thing is I want to use things like w32codecs and they
do not seem to
> be available for 64bit.
It's possible to create 32 bit chroot environments, or to
install a
32-bit version of mplayer (and associated libraries) that
can use the
w32codecs. Not really worth the pain if all you want is a
working
desktop with all the multimedia toys.
>
> When I do top I was expecting to c a line for each CPU
in the summary
> section. Is there a way of monitoring each CPU
separately?
Press the '1' key when your in top to split up the CPU's.
The GUI
system monitor tools will do this as well. (I'm a big fan of
gkrellm myself)
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