Re: [LAD] linux audio standards base?

On 8/10/09, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> On 08/10/2009 05:14 PM, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:22 +1000, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>
>>
>>> "PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables larger
>>> swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It has the cost of more
>>> pagetable lookup overhead, and also consumes more pagetable space per
>>> process."
>>>
>>> That suggests to me a similar situation to a win modem or auto
>>> resampling.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Why? The sentences above do not specify what is compared and only
>> handwavingly suggests a cost of "more" ... Mind you, 64bit pointers
>> crawling all over the place ain't free either.
>>
>>
>
> Simply because they don't specify the real world cost of using the method.
>
>
>>> - Should this be a recommended method coming from LAD?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Rather than suggesting something that is defunkt by default, yes.
>>
>>
>
> I Absolutely agree. I will add that as it's coming from LAD it should
> ideally be the most efficient and future proof option with fallback for
> situations where it is not possible to implement the complete
> recommendation.
>
> I consider this approach part of the fallback.
>
>
>>> BTW, it would be interesting to get some real world feedback from
>>> anyone who has this enabled already on a 32 bit platform.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This would most likely be enabled by default for anybody who has
>> installed a 32bit distro on a machine with 8GB memory.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Hmmm, I wonder how many people are in that situation?
>
> IIUC the only way to get 8GB or RAM onto a normal mobo is with a quad
> core 64 bit system. Are you suggesting that there are a lot of people
> who have one of these beasts who are running 32 bit OS on it?
>
> I know I'm not.
>
> Just out of interest I wonder if Fons would be willing to run 32 bit on
> the new system he is looking at purchasing?
>
> Can we get a show of hands? Is anyone running 32 bit with 8Gb of memory?
> How about 64 bit with the same specs?
>
>

I'm running 64 bit, quad core with 8 gb of ram. Systems like this cost
USD600 here now. :) I play a quite a few games as well as doing
recording with it ;)

Loki
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Received on Mon Aug 10 20:15:09 2009