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Originally Posted by BSDfan666
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.
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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.
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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.