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32bit VS 64bit - what do you use?

Started by Scoundrel · Hace 9 meses

Hello my dear readers.
Today I have a question for all of you. What platforms (32bit or 64 bit) do you use for your servers with more than 4Gb RAM? I’m asking because recently we‘ve hit few really weird bugs in Linux kernels 2.6.18 to 2.6.22 and all those bugs were P ... Continue reading »

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  • cencio

    Hace 1 año

    we are using Win64, but mainly because there is M$ BI stack. Works good for us.

    linux and PAE? why do not use lin64?
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  • Scoundrel

    Hace 1 año

    2cencio: Actually there were many rumors regarding stability of ruby and mongrel on x86_64 boxes, but all stuff I've tried worked well so now I'm looking for more real-life examples from other people to make a final decision of switching our multi-million pageviews/day application entirely to 64-bit.
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  • cencio

    Hace 1 año

    are you wanna make final decision after analyzing posts in Internet? not sure that it is good idea. Just try prototype x64 with 1-4 servers, test stability/performance and will have an answer
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  • Scoundrel

    Hace 1 año

    2cencio: Actually to start testing this platform I wanted to make sure at least a few large rails users would report that it works :-) Now I have enough information (EngineYard and few other large rails users have 64bit stuff and it obviously works well) and we're going to deploy our next app server on 64bit Ubuntu.

    Anyways, thanks to all who answered.
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  • Vasya Pupkin

    Hace 1 año

    Я ипосльзую amd64 ядро, но 32bit userspace.
    В частности linux-image-2.6-amd64 но сама система 32bit, и никаких проблем с PAE. Понятно, что каждый отдельный процесс не сможет съесть в такой схеме более 2GB памяти.
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  • Ram

    Hace 1 año

    Hey,

    Any updates on the 32-bit versus 64-bit. Do you see any memory / performance degradation with the 64 bit? I have 8GB RAM and I am deciding if I should go with 64 bit or downgrade to 4GB RAM and get a 32 bit OS.

    Thanks.
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  • majek

    Hace 12 meses

    We had the same problem [1]. Finally we chose 32 bits, because we could fit much more worker processes on a single host.

    In our case we had python processes. On 64 bits one process used about 95MB RAM, on 32 bits about 60MB (there are a lot of pointers inside python).

    So, by downgrading to 32 bits we could fit 30% more requests on one machine. And our next bottleneck became CPU rather than RAM.

    We also wondered if 32 bits (with 8GB RAM) are slower than 64 bits. But some home made benchmarks showed that the performance degradation isn’t a problem (the results showed that 32 bits are 3-5% slower).

    We tested also some combinations like 64 bits kernel and 32 bit userspace, but finally chose 32kernel/32userspace.

    And what you finally chose and why?

    [1] http://popcnt.org/2008/01/32-or-64-bits.html
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  • Michel

    Hace 7 meses

    I am using 32 bit Windows Vista.
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  • Vartan

    Hace 7 meses

    Am using 32-bit Windows Vista Home Premium.
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  • anna

    Hace 5 meses

    I am trying to download Flash so that i can watch videos on YouTube...but the website keeps telling me that i need a 32 bit to run it. My laptop is a 64 bit, so I am really frustrated because i cant get it to work.
    HELP!
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