> And you absolutely want a 64-bit OS with that much memory. Even on our > development server with just 3GB of RAM, we see quite big jumps in > performance after moving from 32-bit Linux to 64-bit Linux. I'd hate to > think about 64GB of RAM being swapped in and out using PAE. >
What's PAE ? Here's a question for the developers: what's the memory consumption difference when you move a 3GB database from a 32 bit machine to a 64 ? given that the whole thing must be in RAM. Isn't the whole data taking up more RAM because pointers are now 64 bits instead of 32 ? Max ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])