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

[Gareth Blades]

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.