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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