Chris T wrote: > No, the production box is Athlon64 X2 3800, the staging one i386 > (actually a Pentium 4 I had lying around). However the ruby libraries > were built the same way: > > sudo apt-get install ruby1.8 libzlib-ruby rdoc irb ruby1.8-dev > libopenssl-ruby1.8 > > On production: > #ruby -v > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [x86_64-linux] > > On staging: > #ruby -v > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux]
This explains it well, pointers are 8 byte long on 64 bit while only 4 byte long on 32 bit. Each ruby object is essentially a pointer (plus some other magic encoded in the byte alignment and misc other data). A ruby process is bound to be more heavy on 64 bit. You can use a 64 bit db server and keep the application servers 32, this should give some benefits while trading in some uniformity. -- Company - http://primalgrasp.com Thoughts - http://deezsombor.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
