On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:43:31 +0100 Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > ok... we were thinking about 2GB RAM, so maybe we should try 64bit.... :) BTJ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
