[Leaplist] 32 vs 64 bit in servers

[Bryan J. Smith]

Ingo Claro <miclaro at netred.cl> wrote:
> thank you very much for the explanation, very complete.

I've been dealing with x86-64 for almost 5 years, and various
i686 PAE (for 8-32GiB) installations for almost a decade.  This
includes the "controversial" Red Hat 4G/4G "hugemem" kernel.

The fastest Linux kernel model is actually 1G user, 3G kernel.
It only gives you 960MiB of memory.  If you have a system with
only 1MiB of memory, this kernel is recommended.

In fact, many application-specific distros (e.g., appliances)
often run with this model, and people start scratching their
heads when they see only 960MiB when they had 2GiB (or more).


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