On 3/30/2010 10:13 AM, Georghy wrote: > Les Mikesell a écrit : >> Georghy wrote: >> >>> Kwan Lowe a écrit : >>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Georghy<fusco at wanagain.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> The server hardware is : >>>>> 32 GO RAM for memory, 2 xeon 4 cores for the processor >>>>> Only vmware is running on this server (2 windows XP VM 256Mo each) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Unless you need the CentOS specifically as the host, you may be better >>>> of running VMWare ESXi on the metal. There are performance and >>>> usability benefits to ESXi. >>>> >>>> >>> It doesn't depend on me :( >>> >> >> It doesn't matter who makes the decision, the results are the same... Be sure >> that whoever can make this decision knows that ESXi is a free download (but >> requires a windows box to run the remote console when you need to make changes). >> >> But, if you continue running Centos as the host, is it 64-bit if the CPU is >> 64-bit capable? >> >> > I use PAE kernel wich support more than 32 BITs kernel But the performance is worse than a native 64-bit kernel if the CPU is capable. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com