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All I meant that I hadn’t actually used 64 bit windows in production, so talking about it shouldn’t have been taken as a recommendation.
I didn’t mean to start as a Windows vs Unix flamewar!
From: dtbullock@... [mailto:dtbullock@...]
On Behalf Of David Bullock
Sent: Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:48 AM
To: Dennis Sosnoski
Cc: Nick Lothian; Alex Wei; ajug@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ajug] how is 32 bit Java different from 64 bit Java?
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Dennis Sosnoski <dms@...> wrote:
David Bullock wrote:
Aw c'mon you windows-bashers, Vista 64-bit is at least 10 times more stable than 32-bit XP. I have a Vista 64-bit development machine with a comfy 6GB of RAM, and have forgotten what memory paging is, or what reboots are for.
Wow, so 64-bit Vista no longer requires reboots every time you install something? Maybe Windows really is catching up with *nix.
For most applications, reboots are not actually needed. For updates, it does reboot itself about once per month ,but that happens in the early hours of the morning when I'm not around. I have once had to reboot in order to restore system
stability.
I'm not saying it's better than Unix (that would be heretical, clearly), but I am saying it's not as bad as it used to be, especially with the 6GB of RAM.
Am pretty sure they're onto the whole 'must not reboot whole machine' thing with Windows 7.
cheers,
DB.
- Dennis
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