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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="h5">On 05/03/2012 10:04 PM, John Morris wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 20:44 -0400, Roger Horner wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">I may be missing something, but wouldn't another solution be to upgrade to a 64-bit version of Linux on the backend(s)?<br>
</blockquote>Hmm, is there any major benefit to 64bit on a Myth system?<br><br>I originally installed Myth on an little 'ol beater slimline box I put<br>together in '03 that was PIII based so obviously it got a 32bit OS.<br>
When I upgraded the hardware last year in preparation for going HD I<br>just moved the hard drive over and updated Debian to 6.0. Is there<br>enough benefit to justify a wipe and reload? The new hardware only has<br>2GB RAM so that isn't a limit.<br>
</blockquote><br></div></div>That suggestion was specifically for the OP in this thread--as a workaround for the bug that exists in 0.21 that's affecting him. So, for him, the big benefit would be that it would prevent the bug he's seeing from happening.</blockquote>
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<div>The othere advantage (which the OP wasn't suffering from) is the issue of the 32-bit kernal not reserving enough of the Virtual Addressing Space for device drivers (by default) when you have large amounts of RAM (typically more than 768MB). This is common when combining certain capture cards and the NVIDIA propriotary driver. This can be fixed by telling the kernal to reserve more virtual memory (reducing the amount of RAM the kernel can address directly), but the problem goes away completley with the 64-bit kernal.</div>
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<div>The way I see it, if you have a choice, use a 64-bit kernal, as there is very rarely any harm in doing so. Is it worth the upgrade, probably not unless it is the easiest solution to your problems.</div></div></div>