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Old 30th September 2011
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
Even if the system only has 2GB of physical RAM, installing OpenBSD/amd64 has some nice benefits.. larger virtual address space, 64-bit registers, and W^X is implemented using the NX bit in the page tables vs the old segmentation trick they use on i386.
The laptop actually only has 1GB at the moment (could expand to 2GB), but your points are interesting. I was thinking 64-bit would consume a little more memory for processes allocating 64-bit pointers and such. But it probably doesn't really make much difference.

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There is little reason these days not to install OpenBSD/amd64 if your system natively supports it, of course, if you already installed OpenBSD/i386 you can always choose to reconsider when 5.0 is released.
I reinstalled with amd64 and everything seems to work!

For anyone whoever googles for this - the exact model is the Acer Aspire One D257-13450.
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