I've been running Riak in 32bit environments (FreeBSD 8/i386, Ubuntu
12.10/x86), but in either case, I build from the source. I think Describing
the tuning requirement and other caveats in the docs.basho.com site will
be sufficient for the users who have to use Riak on the 32bit environments.

Regards,
Kenji Rikitake
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Basho Japan KK, a Basho Technologies company.

++> Jared Morrow <[email protected]> [2013-02-22 15:23:15 -0700]:
> So why get rid of it in the first place?  32bit machines / vm's have a hard
> 2G limit on memory.  This limit can cause problems with our backends which
> store keys (in bitcask's case) and cache (in eleveldb's case) in memory.
>  You can tune each of these backends to work in constrained environments,
> but requiring manual tuning of the `app.config` before you even start your
> first node doesn't exactly fit our "Ops Friendy" goal we strive to achieve.
> 
> So, is anyone out there running Riak in a 32bit environment?  Will you be
> extremely unhappy if 1.3 is the last release to have supported packages
> built?


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