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Re: Opteron-Servers ... should I run them with 64bit-linux?
Posted by: Harrison Fisk
Date: March 11, 2005 02:34PM

Hi,

Yes you will want to run them with 64-bit linux. The biggest reason to do so in your case is to allow mysqld to address more than 2G or 4G of ram. If you run with a 32-bit system, then mysqld will be restricted to one of the other values. mysqld internally uses a lot of 64-bit numbers, so that might give some performance difference as well, but the RAM is the largest key in this case.

A lot of large MySQL users are running on Opterons under 64-bit linux such as LiveJournal and Wikipedia.

Harrison Fisk, Trainer and Consultant
MySQL AB, www.mysql.com

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