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Ubuntu 11.04: i686 vs. i686 PAE vs. x86_64
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 04/04/2011 01:04 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
Phoronix compared Ubuntu 11.04: i686 vs. i686 PAE vs. x86_64
At the end of 2009 I published benchmarks comparing Ubuntu's 32-bit, 32-bit PAE, and 64-bit Linux kernels. Those tests were carried out to show the performance impact of using 32-bit with PAE (Physical Address Extension) support, which on the plus side allows up to 64GB of system memory to be addressable from 32-bit machines, but is still significantly slower than a 64-bit kernel and user-space. In this article the tests have been carried out on modern hardware and with the latest Ubuntu 11.04 packages to see how the three kernel variants are performing in 2011.
Ubuntu 11.04: i686 vs. i686 PAE vs. x86_64
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