Travis Derouin wrote:
What mode are the Wikipedia OSs running on for the 64
bit machines? Is it 32
or 64 bit mode? We have some 64 bit processors but our hosting provider
recommends we run the OS in 32-bit mode unless we require a huge amount of
memory - which we don't. Are we missing out on anything by doing this?
In general, no, you're not missing out unless you're doing certain kinds
of computational loads that can really benefit from the extra registers
(compiling things is a textbook example).
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