[mythtv-users] 32 or 64 Bit

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 4 March 2010 23:41, Corne Beerse <cbeerse at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26-2-2010 17:43, Donald J. Organ IV wrote:
>
> What is everyones opinion I am going to start building my new FE/BE system
> next week, and I noticed that the mythbuntu distro comes in 32 and 64 bit
> arch.  What would everyone recommend?
>
> General guidelines (roughly in order):
> If software (or hardware drivers) require 32 or 64 bits, use that.
> Up to 2 GB memory: 32 bits
> Processes over 2 GB memory usage: 64 bits.
> msWindows up to 4 GB memory: 32 bits

Windows 32 bits can't use more than 3GB of RAM

> Linux from 3 GB upwards: 64 bits
> msWindows from 4 GB upwards: 64 bits