[TriLUG] Debian 7 - 32 or 64

Jonathan Mainguy jon at jmainguy.com
Wed Nov 20 10:20:52 EST 2013


Yeah if it is under 4 gigs of ram I usually do 32 bit. (For instance if I
have a lowendbox vps at 256mb I would prefer to run 32 bit compared to 64
bit.) Igor++


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:

> In my experience, if the machine cannot support 4 GB's of RAM, 32 bit is
> better. The reason for this is that pointers take only 4 bytes instead of
> 8, so there is less overhead. I have seen this have real impact on, for
> example, MySQL on a low end VPS box. Because of this, my recommendation is
> that if your laptop can only have up to 2 GB's, go with 32 bit. If it can
> do 4 GB's or more, go with 64 bit.
>
> Igor
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