64 bits is faster on AMDbservers and slower on Intel.

I recommend 64 just because 32 became _history_ in a few years.

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From: "Anton Dischner" <Anton.Dischner@(protected)>
To: <suse-oracle@(protected)>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:02 AM
Subject: [suse-oracle] to 64-bit or not to 64-bit that is here the question


> Hi,
>
> we have 2 new Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy TX200 S2 4GB main memory
> dual 150 GB SCSI no RAID.
>
> I installed SuSE SLES9 and Oracle EE 10.1.0.5 on one and
> SuSE SLES9-64 on the other with Oracle 10.1.0.5 64 bit version.
>
> The CPUs seem to be quite equal in performance.
>
> Do you have any reasons/hints to use 64 bit or not?
>
> All our other boxes are 32 bit so i tend to use 32-bit.
>
> I think with main memory as high as 4 GB there is no reason to use 64-
> bit Versions.
>
> Thanks for all input,
>
> Toni
>
> PS: I'll run a few benchmarks and report.
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