New install of RT3.8.8 - 64bit?

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I’m about to build a new RT3, latest greatest 3.8.8. My plan is to use CentOS 5.4. Is there any advantage (disadvantage?) to using 64bit OS? I can use 32bit or 64bit, but want to use whatever would be best and/or least problematic.

Thanks!

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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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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…From: rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com [rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of ronald.higgins@gmail.com [ronald.higgins@gmail.com]
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Subject: Re: [rt-users] New install of RT3.8.8 - 64bit?

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.

Regards

Ronald

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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.