I'm being asked to build a 32bit system. There is no specific reason for this to be 32bit except my boss likes that there are less libraries to install. This is a CentOS 5 install and they way things work, this will remain a 32bit install for the next four years (until a hardware refresh).
It's hard for me to explain why, but that just feels dirty to me. When in performance tuning classes, it was understood that you want 64bit over 32bit. I can't use "people told me 64bit is better", but I keep reading "unless you have a specific reason for 32bit, choose 64". I need something that has details. Can someone provide a link to why you want to install 64bit? The best I could come up with is this article: http://kerneltrap.org/node/2450 which explains how PAE works. Does 64 bit matter for large files? Network performance? I'm irritated that I'm being forced to build this thing as 32bit. It's a RSyslog, Cacti, Nagios system, and if I build it, I'm pretty much signing my name to this. It becomes a "JQ built server". I just feel like going 64bit is better for "future proofing" this thing than 32bit. -- -= JQ =-
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