64 bit Linux

[Brian K. White]

On 9/4/2011 11:32 PM, Fairlight wrote:
>> On 9/2/2011 8:11 AM, Ed Hilovsky wrote:
>>> Runing 64 bit Centos (needed due to amount of RAM required - 24 Gig)
>
> I'd love to know why you specced out 24GB.  I often see people
> overprovisioning linux servers.  I've seen someone toss 32GB at one server
> while upgrading, even though they never used all 8GB they had in the
> current box.
>
> You have to be doing a LOT to seriously need that much RAM on linux.
>
> mark->

Disk cache even if nothing else, for a multi-user random access database 
driven app.

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bkw