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I posted this question to the admin
group. I just realized that I should have sent it here. I just read the following article: http://people.planetpostgresql.org/mha/index.php?/archives/162-PostgreSQL-vs-64-bit-windows.html Would there be benefits in running
PostgreSQL in a 32 bit mode on a 64 bit version of XP? My thought
is that the OS could access more of the memory for the caching of the
files. On my production Linux box, I don’t allocate more than a 2
Gig to PostgreSQL. I leave the rest of the memory available for the
caching of disk files. So even though PostgreSQL would be running in a 32
bit mode it seems like it would still run better on a 64 bit XP box compared to
a 32 bit version. This of course assumes that one does have a sizeable
database and more than 3 Gig of memory. Is this a correct assumption? Would the performance be relatively similar
to that of Linux? Thanks, Lance Campbell Project Manager/Software Architect Web Services at Public Affairs 217.333.0382 http://webservices.uiuc.edu |
