On 8/29/07, Ralph Smith <smithrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, Hi > Are there any recommendations on whether to install onto 32 vs 64 bit Linux? > We're going to be using virtual machines. In addition to Ron's question I'd be curious to hear about the hardware platform and intended use of the database. So far my gut tells me that high-performance databases (or Linux/Unix servers with high average work-loads) don't really offer themselves to virtualisation that well, specially when you throw lots of disk I/O into the equation. Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
