[asterisk-users] Is Centos 64 bit or 32 bit better?

[Steve Underwood]

On 06/29/2010 05:35 PM, Gareth Blades wrote:
> Zhang Shukun wrote:
>    
>> hi, all
>>          after a long time development, i need to deploy a production system.
>>
>> i want to install latest Asterisk 1.6.2.9 on Centos 5.4 . one thing confused me.
>>
>> my computer hardware support 64 bit OS.
>>
>> my question is : should i use Centos 5.4 64bit or  Centos 5.4 32bit?
>>
>> which is better for my asterisk ? consider compatibilityand stability.
>>
>> this is a new machine , only used for asterisk, no other apps.
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>      
> 64bit will give you more adressible memory and faster performance when
> dealing with 64bit numbers. Neither of these will really give you any
> benefit but Asterisk and all the extras I have seen all work fine on
> 64bit so there is no real reason not to go for it.
>
>    
Actually most DSP code runs *much* faster on a 64 bit machine. I think 
it mostly the better register set which results in that.

Steve