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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 64 bit guest much faster ?
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:41:24 +0200
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On 10/23/2009 05:54 PM, Stefan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a simple question (sorry I'm a kvm beginner):
> Is it right that a 64bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB) is
> much faster than a 32bit guest (8 CPUs, 16GB PAE).
> (kvm guest and kvm host are Ubuntu 9.04, 2.6.28-15-server,
> kvm 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu12.3). eg "dpkg-reconfigure initramfs-tools"
> runs twice as fast on the 64bit guest.
>
>    

There shouldn't be that much of a difference.

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