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. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org