CentOS - Jun 2009 - PAE or use 64-bit?

Hi all,

Which would you recommend for a 4GB+ machine?

A 32-bit install with PAE-enabled kernel or just use 64-bit?

Regards,
Matt

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At Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:42:50 +0800 CentOS mailing list <centos at
centos.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Which would you recommend for a 4GB+ machine?
> 
> A 32-bit install with PAE-enabled kernel or just use 64-bit?
It depends...

If you are not doing anything that needs a 64-bit address space, then
32-bit w/PAE will work just fine.
> 
> Regards,
> Matt
> 
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