[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shain Miley) writes: > Hello all, > I was wondering if anyone had any good insight into running the 32 > bit and 64 bit versions of MySQL? We are going to be using a > replication setup within my organization very shortly. We intend to a > have at least one master (writable) DB and several (let's say 3 for > this excersise ) read-only DB's. > > One suggestion that I got was to use 64 bit version of MySQL so that > we can make better use of our servers memory as we are using servers > that have 16 - 32 GB of RAM.
Yes, use the x86_64 bit version as you won't be limited in memory by the 32-bit architecture. MySQL seems to work pretty well with the 32-bit version but using it with more than 4GB of RAM is going to be a problem. The 64-bit version doesn't have any trouble with 32GB (not tried more). Simon -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
