[CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

[Morten Torstensen]

Warren Young wrote:
> All this aside: you aren't seriously trying to talk this guy into using 
> PAE mode, are you?  Are you not, in fact, just being pedantic, yet agree 
> with me on the most important point, which is that he should be using a 
> 64-bit OS and application here?

I hope he is not. Based on real world experience with running Oracle RAC 
on RHEL with 16 CPUs and 16GB memory on a NUMA machine, I would 
discourage anyone running PAE on systems with much more than 8GB.

Basically, for any RDBMS server, I would go 64-bit even if your machine 
only had 4GB memory (or 2GB)... almost for sure your database will need 
more memory sooner rather than later, and 8-16GB memory on a RDBMS isn't 
that much anymore.

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