On 09/13/17 09:42, Joel Carnat wrote: > Hi, > > My Cloud instances are always small (1 ou 2 vCPU, far less than 4GB of > RAM). > > From what I saw, all the ports I need are available in i386 and amd64. > Every Cloud provider I checked are using KVM hypervisor. > > Regarding OS and ports performance, does it make sense to use i386 > rather than amd64 ? > Or is amd64 somehow better even on small configurations ?
hm. I must have been napping. when did 4G RAM become small? Guess I should quit hoarding the 4G disks, eh? :) (says the guy who just noticed a 2G RAM machine currently has almost 1.3G swap in use) In a shared resource environment, the performance of i386 vs amd64 is not going to be noticeable compared to the impact other people sharing your physical CPUs, disks, and network resources. And if the performance was your concern, you wouldn't be talking about just one cpu systems. At this point, I think it is fair to say i386 has entered "legacy" state. I think it would be fair to say that the most active development is taking place on the amd64 platform and being pushed out to others. I think that's a better reason than performance. Nick.
