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

[Luis Morales]

Depend of your hardware. For example if you plan use 8G or more in RAM
it's better choice 64Bits distro.  There are others benefits for
example the size on databases, logs files, memory use, recording
files, etc.


Regards,


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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