Problems w/ MacFUSE & SSHFS
Chris Jones
jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Thu Oct 21 10:26:11 PDT 2010
Chris Jones wrote:
> Johannes Ruscheinski wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Ryan Schmidt
>> <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:07, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the info! Bummer! I don't ever see myself going back to
>>>> 32-bit environments unless I will start working on embedded systems
>>>> which seems unlikely at this point.
>>> There is, of course, no particular need to use the 64-bit kernel if
>>> all you want to do is run 64-bit userspace software. My old MacBook
>>> Pro doesn't support the 64-bit kernel, but it runs 64-bit apps just
>>> fine.
>>
>> Does that mean that individual apps will be able to access the full
>> 8GiB of RAM that I have installed and that the OS itself can make good
>> use of it, too?
>
> yes and yes
Actually, think about it, I am not 100% sure of that first yes. A single
process under the 32 bit kernel might still be limited to say 4G ram.
Not sure.
I am sure of the second yes though.
Chris
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