[CentOS] PAE or use 64-bit?

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Tue Jun 9 02:28:40 UTC 2009


At Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:42:50 +0800 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Which would you recommend for a 4GB+ machine?
> 
> A 32-bit install with PAE-enabled kernel or just use 64-bit?

It depends...

If you are not doing anything that needs a 64-bit address space, then
32-bit w/PAE will work just fine.

> 
> Regards,
> Matt
> 

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