2010/1/21 Bjørn T Johansen <btj@xxxxxxxxxx>: > We are going to be setting up a PostgreSQL server on a guest under VMWare ESX 4... Is there any performance improvement by choosing 64bits Linux over > 32bits Linux as the guest OS or is it almost the same? How much resources do you plan to give the machine? If you're setting up a very constrained machine with little memory, go with the 32-bit version. It'll use slightly less memory which can be important if you're constrained. If you're setting up a medium size or bigger machine (2Gb+ memory), use a 64-bit version. If you plan you may eventually need to increase the size of the machine, go with the 64-bit one from the beginning, because changing from 32 to 64 bit requires dump/reload. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
