[rt-users] New install of RT3.8.8 - 64bit?

[Jesse Vincent]

On Fri 23.Jul'10 at  6:58:47 -0400, Chad Osmond wrote:
> Not really true, PAE has been in since 2.2.23 and allows addressing up to 64GB of RAM in Linux in a 32 bit system..

Historically, though, MySQL does really poorly when given more than 4G
of ram on a 32 bit system.
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> 32bit systems cannot address more than 4GB memory so go with 64bit so you don't find yourself needing to reinstall the O.S in a year or 2 because you need more RAM. IMHO of course.
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