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How expensive is highmem

How expensive is highmem

Posted Oct 24, 2009 2:23 UTC (Sat) by ccurtis (guest, #49713)
In reply to: How expensive is highmem by Cato
Parent article: Fixing kmap_atomic()

I find this question so strange ... as in, why is it even a concern?

But supported or not, my Debian servers have no issues running 32-bit userland apps. 'apt-get install ia32-libs' should be all you need.

My desktop is Ubuntu, and it appears that this package is also required for flash (nonfree). Now, as for stability I can't say I have _too_ many problems, but I wouldn't attribute any I do have to 32bit-ness.

Audio on the other hand...


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How expensive is highmem

Posted Oct 24, 2009 2:28 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

installing the ia32-libs package does not take care of everything (unfortunantly)

it makes most things run, but I have run across many things that require additional 32 bit packages be installed to make them work.

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