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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] switch from 32bit opensuse to 64bit
From:       Per Jessen <per () computer ! org>
Date:       2014-03-13 14:29:05
Message-ID: lfsfbs$bdf$1 () saturn ! local ! net
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Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2014-03-13 08:44, Per Jessen wrote:
> 
>> Oh, I strongly intend to continue doing this.  At times I have maybe
>> 25000+ postfix processes running, spread across a number of systems
>> running 32bit. On 64bit systems they would gobble up much too much
>> memory so I would need a lot more boxes.
> 
> But if this happens, it is bad coding. Programs do not need to use 64
> bit variables just because they are available. They can just as well
> keep using as small a variable as they really need.

I can assure you it happens.  As Andrey said already, it's about
pointers.  
With a few processes it's no big deal, but 32bit I can run a lot more
processes per system than with 64bit. 



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