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32-Bit vs. 64-Bit CentOS Server configuration with 8 GB RAM

Looking at Xeon E3-1230 system with 8 GB DDR3 RAM. I've read (somewhere) that Cent OS 64 Bit has problems and/or that the 32 bit version is "better". Also, I know that with windows you need 64-bit ...
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Virtualization: 64-bit or 32-bit?

I'm going to install Ubuntu 10.04 Server in a virtual machine and want run MySQL and Lighttpd on it. Are there any benefits or disadvantages between 64-bit and 32-bit virtualization, except the 4 ...
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Linux 2.6 32-bit + BIGMEM versus Linux 2.6 64-bit?

I've been told that 32-bit Linux with a bigmem kernel (when the system has >=4GB RAM) will perform better than 64-bit Linux. I'd love to define "perform better than" for you, but unfortunately the ...
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Multiple 32bit processes on 64bit IIS - memory limit?

I've got a legacy ASP web application that uses a VB6 DLL. The app is quite memory hungry. I need to run multiple instances of the app on one machine. Now since VB6 DLLs are 32bit only, running in a ...
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What are the criterias to chose 32-64bit server?

My VPS hosting service allow me to install both Ubuntu 32bit and 64bit. I need to install Apache, Mysql and Drupal on my server. I was wondering if I should go with 64bit and why ? more in general ...
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x64 Windows reports 32GB RAM usable out of 64GB RAM installed - why?

I've got a server with 64GB RAM installed (reported in both the bios and in Windows), but the system information from control panel displays the fact that only 32GB of this is usable. I've only ever ...
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Issue running 32-bit executable on 64-bit Windows

I'm using wkhtmltopdf to convert HTML web pages to PDFs. This works perfectly on my 32-bit dev server [unfortunately, I can't ship my machine :-p ]. However, when I deploy to the web application's ...
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Should I install GCC 64 bit on a new server?

I am going to rebuild my server and I am wondering whether I should install GCC 32 or 64 bit. I develop in Python and I use some libraries that would benefit from a 64 bit GCC installation but I am ...
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Should Windows 7, 32-bit vs 64-bit be installed on various machines?

Windows 7 will be released only 3 days from now. If there are a bunch of machines 1) Quad Core, 4GB machines 2) Core2Duo, 2GB machines 3) HyperThread 3.2GHz, 1GB machines are there pros and cons to ...